sinful

Example Sentences

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Behavioural science can also impact your choice on more sinful things too.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

But when I left I tried to explain to him how I was feeling and my belief that my emotions weren't sinful.

From Salon • May 1, 2024

The Talmud instructs Jews that there are three things so sinful that the ancient rabbis decided one should prefer death to doing them: sex crimes, idol worship, and—last but most important—bloodshed.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2023

Grant appeared to be making a literary reference to the allegorical Vanity Fair of sinful frivolity, but this seemed to be lost on model-turned-TV personality Graham.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2023

She spent her free hours in the library, so wondrously well lit; the sweep of computers, the large, clean, airy reading spaces, the welcoming brightness of it all, seemed like a sinful decadence.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie