as in criminal
a person who commits moral wrongs
even the worst sinner can be redeemed
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Recent Examples of sinner
The American project is a patchwork of dreamers and doers, saints and sinners, stitched together by the thread of promise that stretches across generations.
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F. Willis Johnson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
Horses and men, dust and earth, saints and sinners.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
The place where Dante cast endless sinners, upside down in hellholes of their own carving, or in the tangled forest of suicides, or with the fratricides in the ninth circle, all of them eternally condemned.
—Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Everybody loves a reformed sinner, and his first inquisitors, UF trustees, were prepared to grant Ono absolution.
—Ron Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025
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F. Willis Johnson, Twin Cities, 10 July 2025
Horses and men, dust and earth, saints and sinners.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 24 June 2025
The place where Dante cast endless sinners, upside down in hellholes of their own carving, or in the tangled forest of suicides, or with the fratricides in the ninth circle, all of them eternally condemned.
—Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
Everybody loves a reformed sinner, and his first inquisitors, UF trustees, were prepared to grant Ono absolution.
—Ron Cunningham, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sinner
Noun
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Our research suggests that the vast majority of Republican voters want to close loopholes that allow criminals and dangerous people to get their hands on guns.—
Gabby Giffords,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
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The days of letting dangerous criminals terrorize American citizens are over.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, and felony stalking.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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Instead of a sense of outrage leading to a search for a better solution for repeat violent offenders, her death generated calls for collective retribution and vigilante justice.—
Zeynep Tufekci,
Mercury News,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Maryland continues to maintain a civil justice system that favors wrongdoers instead of people innocently injured due to negligence.—
Bruce M. Plaxen,
Baltimore Sun,
12 July 2025
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So, people may feel compelled to condemn the wrongdoer to restore a sense of justice.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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Because the traits that make someone a hero in a story can easily lend themselves to being painted as a villain, too.—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin play estranged old friends who reconnect at the funeral of a mutual friend, only to realize that their friend's dead husband was really the villain in all their lives.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Sinner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sinner. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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