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
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
As northern ministers watched disorder mount in their own section, they began to see the appeal of revivals as potential answers to what they perceived as a flood of national sinfulness.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
But that act in the distant past does not condemn us inescapably to sinfulness.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 12, 2017
I can see two things, and two only: Thy righteousness, my sinfulness, these and nothing else.
From Sermons by Lightfoot, J. B.
