Sinful
['sɪnfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['sɪnfl]
Definition
(adj.) having committed unrighteous acts; 'a sinful person' .
Editor: Randolph--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Tainted with, or full of, sin; wicked; iniquitous; criminal; unholy; as, sinful men; sinful thoughts.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Wicked, unrighteous, iniquitous, unholy, wrong, criminal, mischievous, bad.
Editor: Sidney
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EXCEPTIONAL_and_RARE]
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Examples
- All that I have looked upon, with my half-blind and sinful eyes, Thou hast discerned clearly, brightly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They take with them a quantity of food, and when the commissary department fails they skirmish, as Jack terms it in his sinful, slangy way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You call yourself humble and sinful, but you are the most Bumptious of your sex. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mine was no light youth of sinful gaiety and pleasure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- She is keeping a sinful secret from you and from everybody. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The members assumed without criticism the traditional dogma of Christianity that sex in any manifestation outside of marriage is sinful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I wish we could do something really sinful, Catherine said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- If this determination be sinful, I must still think it ever has been, and ever will be the sin of all intelligent minds. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Holy father, said the knight, upon whose countenance it hath pleased Heaven to work such a miracle, permit a sinful layman to crave thy name? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She had to sacrifice her sinful and shameful affections; no more. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He wanted Germany punished as though she was a uniquely sinful nation and France a sinless martyr land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Air we in possession of a sinful secret, and do we require corn, and wine, and oil, or what is much the same thing, money, for the keeping thereof? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Gramercy for thy sack, said Wamba; but think'st thou it is lawful for me to aid you to transmew thyself from a holy hermit into a sinful forester? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It was sinful to keep such gifts to herself. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Because we are but mortal, because we are but sinful, because we are but of the earth, because we are not of the air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The utterly uncriticised assumption that all expressions not legalized are sinful shut them off from any constructive answer to their problem. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It cost me a hard struggle, before Christian humility conquered sinful pride, and self-denial accepted the cheque. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Bulstrode's standard had been his serviceableness to God's cause: I am sinful and nought--a vessel to be consecrated by use--but use me! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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