sinner

Synonyms for sinner

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noun. person responsible for wrongdoing

noun. person responsible for wrongdoing

noun. wrongdoer

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., agent noun from sin (v.). Old English had synngiend in this sense.

It seems impossible for Shakespeare to believe that the sinner can punish sin.

In general, the sinner is not the man who sets out in life to be wicked.

Though every sinner be ungrateful, yet every sinner is not a monster of ingratitude.

Saint and sinner, ascetic and worldling, united in its practice.

The sinner is only a being who is without strength because he is lacking in grace.

That's what the world says to the sinner, Margaret, my girl.

To be a sinner, a criminal, and not conscious of one criminal aspiration.

Went flashin' 'long from pew to pew, nor passed a sinner by.

She began to take a high tone with her, the tone of a saint towards a sinner.

She read of the prodigal son, and of Him who would not condemn the woman that was a sinner.