Nefarious vs Sinful - What's the difference?
nefarious | sinful | Related terms |
Sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics.
* 1828 , , The Red Rover , ch. 2:
* 1877 , , The Life of Cicero , ch. 9:
* 1921 , , The Indiscretions of Archie , ch. 26:
* 2009 Oct. 14, Monica Davey, "
Full of sin; wicked; iniquitous; unholy.
Containing or consisting in sin; contrary to the will of a god, goddess, gods and/or goddesses.
Of or relating to sin; sinny.
Morally wrong.
Evil.
Nefarious is a related term of sinful.
As adjectives the difference between nefarious and sinful
is that nefarious is sinful, villainous, criminal, or wicked, especially when noteworthy or notorious for such characteristics while sinful is full of sin; wicked; iniquitous; unholy.nefarious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "If the vessel be no fair-trading slaver, nor a common cruiser of his Majesty, it is as tangible as the best man's reasoning, that she may be neither more nor less than the ship of that nefarious pirate the Red Rover."
- Mommsen . . . declares that Catiline in particular was "one of the most nefarious' men in that ' nefarious age. His villanies belong to the criminal records, not to history."
- The fact that the room was still in darkness made it obvious that something nefarious was afoot. Plainly there was dirty work in preparation at the cross-roads.
Fact Checker Finds Falsehoods in Remarks," New York Times (retrieved 12 May 2014):
- “I try to let everyone back here in Minnesota know exactly the nefarious activities that are taking place in Washington.”