sinful
Example Sentences
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“Carter thought politics was sinful,” his vice president, Walter Mondale, said.
From Los Angeles Times
Three messengers from God came to a town, urging its sinful people to follow His word.
From Seattle Times
They derided those deemed unlike them as not “normal” and as sinful.
From Washington Post
In 2013, soon after becoming Pope, he reaffirmed the Catholic Church's position that homosexual acts were sinful, but added that homosexual orientation was not.
From BBC
Tormented by sinful desires and intellectual hubris, Gervaise finally decides to assuage his religious doubts through a daring gambit: He challenges Satan to a chess match.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
