sinful
adjective
characterized by, guilty of, or full of sin; wicked.
sinfulness
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a word derived from
sinful.
Example Sentences
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Along the way, Anaia and Racine contend with evergreen notions of morality and sinfulness.
From Salon ● May 19, 2026
Augustine sees this conflict as one between two rival wills, one that wills the good and one that desires sinfulness.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
That’s David Brooks’s point: We can’t truly cross the divide unless there’s a societywide and soul-deep acceptance of the sinfulness that has caused and perpetuated that divide.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2019
But that act in the distant past does not condemn us inescapably to sinfulness.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
These lurid and doleful mansions, owe their existence to the sinfulness and depravity of man; and they are designed, by a mild and salutary process, to reform the sons of guilt and crime.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
