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# sinful

«sinful» in Mova's school dictionary: **Wrong according to God's law or religious teaching; full…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (sinful)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (church) Wrong according to God's law or religious teaching; full of sin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/#m1)

2) (informal, humorous) Very naughty or too much: «a sinfully rich chocolate cake». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In church and Bible lessons: Christians believe all people are sinful and need forgiveness; confession and repentance follow. In everyday jokes: «sinful desserts». Phrases: «sinful behaviour», «sinfully delicious».

### examples

- Christians believe that people are sinful and need God's forgiveness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/#x1)
- The priest spoke about sinful thoughts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/#x2)
- That chocolate cake is sinfully rich! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/#x3)
- The story showed how sinful greed can be. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/#x4)
- She felt sinful eating three doughnuts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/#x5)
- In the Bible, people turned away from sinful ways. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/#x6)
- "What are you doing, you children?" cried the gentle lady; "that is sinful!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/#x7)

### note

From «sin» + «-ful». Adverb «sinfully». The humorous sense is light-hearted and not about religion.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sinful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sinful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.