Wicked ... and, homophonically, like five long puzzle answers

Usage examples of sinful.

My illustrious friend still continuing to sound in my ears the imperious duty to which I was called, of making away with my sinful relations, and quoting many parallel actions out of the Scriptures, and the writings of the holy fathers, of the pleasure the Lord took in such as executed his vengeance on the wicked, I was obliged to acquiesce in his measures, though with certain limitations.

But the sinful priest, being defiled, has neither the life nor the merits befitting this sacrament.

Humanity but the Angels, since these also, like all created by God and less than perfect, are sinful.

It is not a guarded doctrinal statement, but an unstudied, rhetorical illustration of the affiliation of the sinful and unhappy generations of the past with their offending progenitor, Adam, of the believing and blessed family of the chosen with their redeeming head, Christ.

In order to understand the question at issue, it must be observed that the fomes is nothing but a certain inordinate, but habitual, concupiscence of the sensitive appetite, for actual concupiscence is a sinful motion.

There were the blessed creatures of the Lordy to direct his way and when sinful he was surrounded by monsters and demons of the deep circling around and threatening the hell-fire.

Upon which consideration, how palpable a sin will it be to subject to, or accept of any oath that may be imposed by the said British Parliament, for the maintenance and support of such an Union, or for recognoseing, owning and acknowledging the authority of the said Parliament, and that because of our swearing, and promising subjection to the said Parliament, we do thereby homologate the foresaid sinful constitution, and swear, and promise subjection to the bishops of England who are a considerable part of that Parliament, and so we shall be bound and oblidged to maintain and uphold them in their places, dignities, and offices, which is contrar to the Word of God and our covenants, while the very first article of the Solemn League oblidges us to endeavour the reformation of the religion in the kingdom of England, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, as well as in Scotland.

Mum had heard that girls purposely dressed skimpily to catch the eye of drivers as they raced to the sinful south and she was adamant that my clothes should be modest.

And wavelessly, in the deep silence, Three banners hung peaceful and low -- They bore the bright blue of the heavens, They wore the pure white of the snow And beneath them fair children were kneeling, Whose faces, with graces aglow, Seemed sinless, in land that is sinful, And woeless, in life full of woe.

And agin follerd a expletive that wuz still more forcible, and still more sinful.

The Kirk has made the yett of grace ower wide for sinful men, and all ither yetts ower narrow.

There was alizarin crimson, magenta, and that thorn in the backside of the sinful, sister terra rosa.

She groaned and released his neck to fall back, arching and stretching, luxuriating in the sinful delight of a bath.

They thought it equally absurd and sinful for a man to carry his income on his back, and bedizen himself out in reds, blues, and greens, ribbons, knots, slashes, and treble quadruple daedalian ruffs, built up on iron and timber, which have more arches in them for pride than London Bridge for use.

I had certainly resolved on it, had not a more shameful, though perhaps less sinful, thought expelled it from my head.