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Sinny vs Sunny - What's the difference?

sinny | sunny |

As adjectives the difference between sinny and sunny

is that sinny is characterised by or characteristic of sin; sinful; guilty of sin; wicked while sunny is (of weather or a day) featuring a lot of sunshine.

As an adverb sunny is

(us|regional) sunny side up.

As a noun sunny is

a sunfish.

sinny

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Characterised by or characteristic of sin; sinful; guilty of sin; wicked.
  • *1909 , Wallace Irwin, Letters of a Japanese schoolboy ("Hashimura Togo") :
  • [...] 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.
  • *1974 , Gerald G. Griffin, The silent misery: why marriages fail :
  • "That was a sinny -sin-sin! [...]
  • *2007 , D. B. Clark, The Curse of Humorous Verse :
  • 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, [...]
  • *2009 , Kate Clinton, I Told You So :
  • 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.
  • *2010 , Washington Weaver, The Alliterating Philosopher: Philosophy Can Be Phun :
  • [...] 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).
  • *2011 , Ann Palmer, Ann of 1,000 Lives: Author Ann Palmer Relives Her Own Past Lives :
  • 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).

    sunny

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of weather or a day) Featuring a lot of sunshine.
  • Whilst it may be sunny today, the weather forecast is predicting rain.
  • (of a place) Receiving a lot of sunshine.
  • the sunny side of a hill
    I would describe Spain as sunny , but it's nothing in comparison to the Sahara.
  • (figuratively, of a person or a person's mood) Cheerful.
  • a sunny disposition
  • * Shakespeare
  • My decayed fair / A sunny look of his would soon repair.
  • Of or relating to the sun; proceeding from, or resembling the sun; brilliant; radiant.
  • * Spenser
  • sunny beams
  • * Shakespeare
  • sunny locks

    Synonyms

    * bright; sunshiny * (place) sunlit * (person) bright, cheerful

    Derived terms

    * sunnily * sunniness * sunny side up * unsunny

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (US, regional) sunny side up
  • Noun

    (sunnies)
  • A sunfish.
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