Dictionary Entry

sinful

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/ˈsɪnfəl/Used In Literature ↓

Constituting a sin; being morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil

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. sinfulman sinfulnature sinfulmen sinfulworld sinfulflesh sinful

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Poetry examples for “sinful”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Act sins which Prisca's confessor scarce hears.
Ev'n those I pardon, for whose sinful sake
Schoolmen new tenements in hell must make;

And garrets hung with green;
I know the swing of sinful hack,
Where many damsels cry alack.

So in the sinful streets, abstracted and alone,
I with my secret self held communing of mine own.

Through the great sinful streets of Naples as I past,
With fiercer heat than flamed above my head

Whatever pain, whatever wrench to me,
These sinful roots and remnants which, whate’er
I do, how high so e’er I soar from earth,

The innocent way she told the Earl
She thought Plays sinful when a girl,
And now she never had a chance!

He is harmless---ye are sinful,---
Ye are troubled---he, at ease:

For even that sinful Babylon when surprised
Put not her sackcloth on nor sacrificed ;

And on her naked shame, 40
Pollute with sinful blame,
The saintly veil of maiden white to throw;

When methodist preachers come down,
A-preaching that drinking is sinful,
I’ll wager the rascals a crown,