Sinnier vs Sinner - What's the difference?
sinnier | sinner |
(sinny)
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Characterised by or characteristic of sin; sinful; guilty of sin; wicked.
*1909 , Wallace Irwin, Letters of a Japanese schoolboy ("Hashimura Togo") :
*1974 , Gerald G. Griffin, The silent misery: why marriages fail :
*2007 , D. B. Clark, The Curse of Humorous Verse :
*2009 , Kate Clinton, I Told You So :
*2010 , Washington Weaver, The Alliterating Philosopher: Philosophy Can Be Phun :
*2011 , Ann Palmer, Ann of 1,000 Lives: Author Ann Palmer Relives Her Own Past Lives :
As an adjective sinnier
is comparative of sinny.As a noun sinner is
a person who has sinned.sinnier
English
Adjective
(head)sinny
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- [...] kick against Olive Oil Trust, they almost went to jail for their crimes, so they hurry around to Judge Landis face and was comforted to know that taking rebates from Harriman was sinnier than taking silverware from a Soldiers' Home.
- "That was a sinny -sin-sin! [...]
- So, should I return to that childhood state When my life was not very sinny ? No, I lived a Catholic hell back then, Where living was devoid of the fun kind of sin, And though I'll be sent to the all-faith Hell, In the mean time, [...]
- I confess to quickly scanning the papal list, looking for the sin of homosexuality. It was not there! Maybe it is understood. It was like being dropped from the big annual Papal Magazine "Sinniest Sins Alive" special double issue.
- [...] of all of the sins that are drummed into the brains of the Uptight Sin-filled Abstainers, the sin of oral sex may be the sinniest (a wonderful new word).
- Still and tall he stands with such grace for such a man as he. I love his collar and his hair – a lion and his mane, did I dare tell – sinny', ' sinny , sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin,” (this was a peppy song in my head).