sinful
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Whether sinful passions or unconscious destructive urges, distracting attachments or visceral impulses, desire is the daemon that makes us act, often against our own interests and those of others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
Behavioural science can also impact your choice on more sinful things too.
From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2026
The South Carolina secession convention declared the state was leaving the Union because northerners “have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery.”
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025
In its day, the Feb. 1, 1922, unsolved murder of director William Desmond Taylor left Americans both fascinated and morally high-horsing about those sinful Hollywood people.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2024
She told herself that it was foolish and sinful to look backward when her safety lay before her, like a hiding-place hewn in the side of the mountain.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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