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Type Words
Synonyms sinfulness, wickedness
Type of unrighteousness
Has types mark of cain
Type Words
Synonyms sine
Type of circular function, trigonometric function
Type Words
Synonyms blunder, boob, drop the ball, goof
Type of break, breach, offend, transgress, violate, infract, go against
Type Words
Synonyms sinning
Type of evildoing, transgression
Has types venial sin, actual sin, deadly sin, fall, mortal sin, original sin
Type Words
Synonyms transgress, trespass
Type of violate, breach, break, go against, infract, offend, transgress
Has types fall
Derivation sinner, sinning
Type Words
Type Words
Type of letter, letter of the alphabet, alphabetic character

Examples of sin

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After a few doses of the sin the audience craved, the band ended with salvation.
From the bostonherald.com
Complacency would be Ireland's cardinal sin here but I can't see that happening.
From the guardian.co.uk
Is wanting to be overpaid some sort of grave sin unique to public sector unions?
From the theatlantic.com
The home flanker visiting the sin bin for the manner in which this was achieved.
From the middevonstar.co.uk
It is a sin to evaluate this watch for yourself seeing it in still images alone.
From the techcrunch.com
This regime establishes an inner tyranny of sin and guilt, and it too collapses.
From the time.com
End times stories are tales of sin punished, and climate change is no different.
From the time.com
It was a national institution, not a Southern fluke or a sin of the wealthy few.
From the cnn.com
His sin is to admit that, were he tempted by going anywhere, it would be Madrid.
From the nytimes.com
More examples
  • Commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
  • Estrangement from god
  • An act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will
  • Drop the ball: commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview"
  • Sine: ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
  • (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna
  • Sin, in religion, is the concept of acts that violate a known moral rule. The term sin may also refer to the state of having committed such a violation. Commonly, the moral code of conduct is decreed by a divine entity, i.e. divine law. ...
  • Muirchertach mac Muiredaig (died c. 534), called Mac Ercae, Muirchertach Macc Ercae and Muirchertach mac Ercae, was said to be High King of Ireland. The Irish annals contain little reliable information on his life, and the surviving record shows signs of retrospective modification. ...
  • Shin (also spelled u0160in (u0161u012Bn) or Sheen) literally means "teeth", "press", and "sharp"; It is the twenty-first letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Shin , Hebrew Shin u05E9, Aramaic Shin , Syriac Shin u072B, and Arabic Shin u0634u200E (in abjadi order, 13th in modern order). Its sound value is a voiceless sibilant, or .