Clues for the word "SIN"
We've had 459 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 1288 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New Zealand Herald crossword on April 13, 2025.
Definition of sin
- adv., prep., & conj. - Old form of Since.
- n. - Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
- n. - An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
- n. - A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
- n. - An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
- n. - To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.
- n. - To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.
Referring Clues
- Biblical no-no
- Transgression
- Fall from grace
- Moral misdeed
- Stray, in a way
- First mistake
- Offense
- Avarice, e.g.
- Confession in a confessional
- Sloth, for one
- Kind of tax
- No good deed
- Epitome of ugliness?
- Theology discussion
- Brand of hair lightener
- Wrong
- Mortal wrong
- Misdeed
- Fats Waller's "It's a ___ to Tell a Lie"
- Confession topic
- Wrongdoing
- Pride or lust
- Lust, for one
- Sermon subject
- Break a Commandment
- It could be original
- Mortal thing
- Go astray
- Failing
- Anger, e.g.
- Pride, e.g.
- Envy, e.g.
- Original ___
- "Love is my ___ ...": Shak.
- Sloth, e.g.
- Envy or gluttony
- Scripture topic
- Thing to confess
- What it is "to tell a lie"
- Part of a confession
- Covet thy neighbor's wife, say
- Halo tarnisher?
- With 4-Down, smoker's fee
- Transgress
- You might pay for it later
- Ugly as ___
- It may be original
- Commandment violation
- Seminary subject
- Gluttony or sloth
- Greed, envy, or pride
- Soul stainer
- Iniquity
- Peccadillo
- Fall into evil ways
- Gluttony, for one
- Bible no-no
- Bad act
- Concern of ministers
- City or tax leader
- Absolution cause
- Peccant person's action
- Sloth is one
- Gluttony, e.g.
- Wickedness
- Religious violation
- One of the seven deadlies
- It may be mortal
- Violation
- Heinous offense
- Dastardly deed
- Need forgiveness
- Violation, and word that "moves" within the six starred clues
- Scientific calculator button
- Subject of a sermon
- Preacher's topic
- Confession to a priest
- Serious transgression
- "Ah ___" (Harte/Twain play)
- Be gluttonous, say
- My ___ (perfume by Lanvin)
- Wrong thing to do
- It may be deadly
- ___ City (Las Vegas nickname)
- Ungodliness
- Do bad
- "There is no ___ except stupidity": Wilde
- Pride, for one
- Calculator button next to cos
- Without, in Oaxaca
- Evil deed
- ___ tax
- Greed or envy
- Cause for penitence
- Large-scale no-no
- Coveting, per the Bible
- Something wrong
- Moral wrong
- With 24-Across, nickname in Nevada
- Do wrong
- Something taboo
- Homily topic
- Sermon topic
- Trig. term
- Sloth or envy
- Moral lapse
- Calculator button
- Greed or avarice
- Theological topic
- Be bad
- Pride, lust or envy
- Theological no-no
- Tax type
- Wasting food, to some
- What wasting food is, to some
- Go against God
- Immoral deed
- Moral misstep
- Confession component
- ___ tax (liquor levy, e.g.)
- Avarice or lust, e.g.
- Act of immorality
- Lying, e.g.
- Ugliness exemplar
- Theology topic
- Lie or murder, e.g.
- Require forgiveness
- Be gluttonous, e.g.
- Steal or lie, e.g.
- Dreadful deed
- Biblical topic
- Atoner's worry
- Deadly or mortal thing
- Greed, envy or pride
- Item for confession
- One of a deadly septet
- Ugly comparison
- Transgression of divine law
- Wayward path
- Go against God's commandments
- Envy is one
- Idolatry, for one
- Vice
- Let one's god down?
- Sloth or greed
- Do something wrong
- Sermon subject, at times
- Error
- Gluttony or lust
- "Love is my ___ ": Shak.
- ___ tax
- Risk perdition
- Devil's advocacy
- Covet or lust
- Clerical error
- Adulter, e.g.
- ___ City (Las Vegas)
- Err
- Every Canadian's ID
- Moral slip
- Risk damnation
- 21st Hebrew letter
- Moral slip
- Lust or envy, e.g.
- With 36-Down, penalty box, informally
- Some are said to live in it
- It can be carnal or cardinal
- Trespass
- Stray from righteousness
- One of seven deadly items
- Confession item
- Immoral act
- Major no-no
- Naughty act
- Confessional topic
- Moral no-no
- Church no-no
- Church topic
- No-no
- Confessional item
- Clerical error?
- Moral failure
- Bible topic
- Soul blotter
- Impiety
- Err morally
- Subject of confession
- Envy, for one
- Act immorally
- ___ City
- Lapse of behavior
- It may be deadly or mortal
- Break a law, in a way
- Trig function, briefly
- Envy, wrath or sloth, e.g.
- It can be deadly or mortal
- Wicked deed
- Devil's advocacy?
- Evil doing
- One of a deadly seven
- Stray from the straight and narrow
- Confessional admission
- Topic in a confessional
- It might be original
- Admission in a confessional
- Confession confession
- Fall into evil
- Religious error
- Lust, e.g.
- Immoral misdeed
- Confessional confession
- Something to beg pardon for
- It may be cardinal or deadly
- Elate Old Nick
- Bad acting
- Offense against God
- My ___ (former fragrance)
- Innocent's lack
- It's not a good thing
- Reason for contrition
- Preacher's subject
- Pride or lust, say
- Fall, in a way
- Go against one's god
- Lust, envy or gluttony, e.g.
- Vice principle
- Infraction of faith
- God hates it
- With 40-Down, 2005 neo-noir movie
- State that many couples live in?
- Something confessed in a confessional
- Biblical taboo
- Covetousness, for one
- Admission during confession
- Confessional subject
- Trig function
- Revival-tent topic
- Reprehensible offense
- Confessor's burden
- God does not approve of it
- Iniquitous act
- Greed, e.g.
- Evil act
- Moral error
- Religious offense
- Gluttony or sloth, e.g.
- Reason for confession
- Church subject?
- Venial or mortal lapse
- "Some rise by ___, and some by virtue fall": Shak.
- It's a no-no
- Go astray biblically
- Confessional revelation
- What a priest may absolve
- What to ask forgiveness for
- Reason to atone
- Committed thing
- Omission, e.g.
- Topic from the pulpit
- Go astray, biblically
- What God says not to do
- Envy or lust
- Commit a fault
- Pride or sloth
- Go wrong
- One of the seven "deadly" things
- Pride is a deadly one
- Theology taboo
- "Original ___" (2001)
- "Grant me to ___ once with impunity": Ovid
- Violate a commandment
- Evildoing
- "Deadly" offense
- Thing to seek forgiveness for
- One of a prohibitive septet
- Be in need of forgiveness
- 28-Down, e.g.
- Go astray morally
- Serious misstep
- Subject of many an "Inferno" tale
- Seriously overstepped bounds
- Something the devil cheers
- Scriptural wrongdoing
- Risk being sent to purgatory
- Zola's "The ___ of Father Mouret"
- Do the wrong thing
- Spiritual transgression
- It "exists when one goes against one's conscience," per Pope Francis
- Pride, for example
- Cardinal ___
- Biblical offense
- Hamartiologist's topic
- Biblical transgression
- Reason for regret
- Covet one's neighbor's wife, e.g.
- Moral offense
- Envy or sloth
- Sermon topic, sometimes
- Go against the Ten Commandments
- Lying, stealing, etc.
- Break one of the Ten Commandments
- Sunday sermon topic
- Lie or steal, e.g.
- One of a noted septet
- Reason to confess
- "Se7en" subject
- It fun to live in
- One of a Biblical septet
- Do wrong at home on Sunday
- Anger or lust
- ___ bin (nickname for the penalty box in hockey)
- Moral transgression
- Lust, so it's said
- Wrath or sloth
- Transgression (3)
- Bon Jovi "Living in ___"
- Deer Tick "Art Isn't Real (City of ___)"
- Ozzy "The Ultimate ___"
- '89 Bon Jovi power ballad "Living in ___"
- Behave badly
- "Transgressing" covers it
- Yes, a Pole has a commission
- Increasing amount of crime
- Piece of brass in a vice
- Wicked bit of singing
- Is wrong, by the way
- Fault in the housing programme
- It's original, maybe, but not good
- A crime? Yes, when there's no love lost!
- It's bad when there's a missing part
- It's bad, yes, for a man to be motherless
- Crime takes a bit of erasing
- Pulpit topic
- Triangular relationship abhorred by the Church
- Penance motivator
- Evangelist's topic
- Greed or gluttony
- Something wrong with second home?
- Adultery, e.g.
- Theological concern
- Sermon concern
- "Se7en" motif
- ___ of omission
- The Scarlet Letter subject
- Bad thing to do
- Subject of a sermon, frequently
- Crime of possessing stolen goods
- Moral crime
- Envy or sloth, deadly ___
- An ugly comparison?
- It makes one fall, endlessly
- Second home's function
- A wrong
- Saint, initially, in fall from grace
- Wicked transgression
- Violative act
- Ignore a Commandment
- Pride or sloth, e.g.
- Pride or gluttony, for example
- Evil activity
- Do a bad thing
- Cursing having no dogs is no good
- Eating the forbidden fruit, e.g.
- Consideration at the Pearly Gates
- Theology subject
- Wicked doing
- Moral taboo
- Anger or gluttony, deadly ___
- Simony is one
- Lie-telling, e.g.
- Go against the Commandments
- Violate the Commandments
- Bad deed
- Confession disclosure
- Something to confess at a confessional
- Topic of proselytization
- Lust, but not love
- Sunday subject
- Confession in confession
- ___ bin (hockey penalty box, slangily)
- Crime of possessing stolen goods?
- Sloth, for example
- Cross a moral line
- Act to atone for
- Envy, say
- Greed or pride
- Do the wrong thing?
- What it is to kill a mockingbird, in "To Kill a Mockingbird"
- Serious no-no
- Bit of immorality
- In very different ways, one is wrong
- See 38-Down
- Serious offense
- Stray [last letter]
- Serious code-breaking?
- Serious misdeed
- Behave in an ungodly fashion?
- Something wrong with second home?
- Stray morally
- Opposite of purity
- Greed or lust
- Do something immoral
- Moral wrongdoing
- Topic in a sermon
- Violate God's commands
- It's naughty, yes, and a bit nice
- Wrong part for a brass instrument
- The father was exiled from Spain for wrongdoing
- Sloth or wrath
- Faith's opposite, per Kierkegaard
- Wicked? Yes, with no love lost
- Go against God's laws
- Commandments violation
- Is up north, and that's bad
- Crime of passing dud notes?
- Religious wrong
- Confession subject
- Lust or greed
- Sloth or envy, it's said
- Killing a mockingbird is one, per Atticus Finch
- An error in finishing up
- Fathers warn against it
- ___ City (Vegas)
- "To ___ by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men": Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Avarice, for one
- Mortal or venial
- Certain sportsmen have a bin for it
- Go against any of the Ten Commandments
- "It's a ___" (HBO miniseries)
- Wrong thing to do before God
- Wrongdoing according to God Almighty
- Wicked piece of gross incompetence
- Religious wrongdoing
- Wrongdoing, according to the Bible
- Something God despises
- Yes, a bit of fun's wrong!
- Planting more than one kind of seed in a field, per Deuteronomy
- Cause for a confession
- Missing letters in "transgre_s_o_," appropriately
- Biblical wrongdoing
- Evil
- Partner of cos and tan in math
- Do something unholy
- Greed, gluttony or sloth
- Subject of atonement
- Do something reprehensible
- Unholy act
- The S in trig's "SOHCAHTOA"
- One of the seven in "Se7en"
- Greed or sloth
- Envy or sloth, for example
- Bad reason for being in the bin?
- What God frowns upon
- Envy or pride, for example
- "It's a ___" (2021 miniseries chronicling the AIDS crisis)
- Go the wrong way?
- "Guilty as ___?"
- Motif in 1995's "Se7en"
- Defy a commandment
Last Seen In
- New Zealand Herald - April 13, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 11, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - April 10, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - March 25, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - March 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 16, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 14, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - March 14, 2025
- New York Times - March 14, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 25, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 20, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 17, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - February 10, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - February 05, 2025
- Family Time - January 27, 2025
- USA Today - January 24, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Sunday - January 12, 2025
- Your Life Choices - January 04, 2025
- New York Times - January 03, 2025
- Daily American - January 01, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - December 15, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 11, 2024
- USA Today - December 06, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - November 28, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 26, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 23, 2024
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