sinful
- characterized by, guilty of, or full of sin; wicked: a sinful life.
Origin of sinful
Synonyms for sinful
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shameful, disgraceful, reprehensible, amiss, bad, base, blamable, blameworthy, censurable, corrupt, culpable, damnable, depraved, erring, evil, guilty, iniquitous, irreligious, low, reprobateExamples from the Web for sinful
Contemporary Examples of sinful
Alcohol and sugar, even in moderate amounts, are not only sinful but poisonous.
And now, as a part of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, North Carolina is about to have the sinful practice foisted on it.
It is a festival of joy for being created this way after centuries of being told that we are sinful, loathsome, and disgusting.
“They say that drinking is haram,” or sinful under Islamic law.
The group takes its name from a phrase meaning “Western education is sinful.”
Historical Examples of sinful
She had to sacrifice her sinful and shameful affections; no more.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
Do you not begin to feel prayer is really the help for this sinful world?
The Ministry of IntercessionAndrew Murray
I am not a devil, but only a sinful woman who has lost her way, not figuratively but literally!'
Father SergiusLeo Tolstoy
Why does the whole world, with all its delights, exist if it is sinful and must be renounced?
Father SergiusLeo Tolstoy
He fled in fear the fatal scourge, seeking shelter, a sinful man, and entered in.
BeowulfAnonymous
sinful
- having committed or tending to commit sina sinful person
- characterized by or being a sina sinful act