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sin
Synonyms and Antonyms of sin
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a breaking of a moral or legal code
breach, crime, debt, error, lawbreaking, malefaction, misdeed, misdoing, offense (or offence), transgression, trespass, violation, wrongdoing
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that which is morally unacceptable
atrociousness, atrocity, badness, balefulness, darkness, depravedness, devilishness, diabolism, enormity, evilness, heinousness, iniquitousness, satanism, sinfulness, vileness, wickedness
devilry (or deviltry), fiendishness
cancer, canker, decay, rot, squalor
corruption, debauchery, degeneracy, depravity, indecency, malefaction, perversion, pervertedness, scurrility, scurrilousness
abomination, anathema, taboo (also tabu)
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immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society
bad, badness, blackness, evil, evildoing, ill, turpitude, villainy, wickedness, wrong
atrociousness, evilness, heinousness, sinfulness, unscrupulousness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness
devilry (or deviltry), fiendishness
corruptness, debasement, degeneracy, degeneration, depravedness, dissoluteness, dissolution
indecency, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, looseness, perversion, pervertedness, wantonness
abomination, anathema, taboo (also tabu)
criminality, reprehensibleness
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a regrettable or blameworthy act
5
a defect in character
demerit, dereliction, failing, fault, foible, frailty, shortcoming, vice, want, weakness
feet of clay
Synonym Discussion of sin
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- at that school no offense went unpunished
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- the sin of blasphemy
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- regarded gambling as a vice
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- the crime of murder
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- a career ruined by a sex scandal
sin
Synonyms and Antonyms of sin
to commit an offense
break the law, fall from grace
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