What's the difference between guilty and sin?

Guilty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment.
  • (superl.) Evincing or indicating guilt; involving guilt; as, a guilty look; a guilty act; a guilty feeling.
  • (superl.) Conscious; cognizant.
  • (superl.) Condemned to payment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
  • (2) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
  • (3) Over the next few days, I look forward to reviewing this guilty plea closely to see whether it appropriately holds officers, directors and key executives individually accountable and whether the plea will be sufficient to help deter similar misconduct in the future,” he said.
  • (4) • The Tamil Tigers (LTTE) were guilty of human rights abuses and demanded a cut of international NGOs' spending in the areas they controlled.
  • (5) If Navalny is guilty of breaching Russian law, there are law enforcement agencies that can and should prevent crime,” he says.
  • (6) China Labor Watch says Samsung is also guilty of bad hiring and working practices.
  • (7) Seven more were charged in the US and four more, including the former Concacaf general secretary Chuck Blazer, pleaded guilty.
  • (8) She said it was time there was an offence of possessing firearms with intent to supply, arguing: "Those people who are supplying the firearms are as guilty as the people using them when it comes to the impact."
  • (9) The Dozen: the weekend's best Premier League photos Read more The visitors scored late on through Mame Biram Diouf’s header but had chances before and after having played with great intent and togetherness, with Diouf guilty of missing two good chances in the first half alone.
  • (10) He was found guilty of misconduct by an independent FA commission and banned for four matches.
  • (11) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
  • (12) The mother and stepfather of a four-year-old boy who was battered to death after being subjected to a six-month regime of starvation and physical torture will be jailed for life on Friday after being found guilty of murdering the boy, whose body was so emaciated that one experienced health worker compared it to that of a concentration camp victim.
  • (13) Several top police commanders were acquitted, and Mubarak and his sons were found not guilty of corruption charges.
  • (14) Her parents, Apiruj and Wanthanee Suwadee, were found guilty of violating Article 112 of Thailand’s criminal code which says anyone who “defames, insults or threatens the king, the queen, the heir-apparent or the regent” will be punished with up to 15 years in prison.
  • (15) In his letter, Franklin said he was "somewhat surprised" by the guilty finding but "gave deference to the court-martial jury because they had personally observed the actual trial."
  • (16) Whitson also had strong words for Missouri Governor Jay Nixon , who has called for the “vigorous prosecution” of Wilson, calling such comments “ludicrous” and contrary to the spirit of “innocent until proven guilty”.
  • (17) For me, the simple reason is I tried a three-day week and found I struggled to keep on top of work, felt disconnected from my colleagues' rhythm, felt guilty about so much time off, and was so bad at freelancing I ended up working many more hours for less money.
  • (18) The governing body expelled Legia on Friday morning after an investigation found that they were guilty of fielding an ineligible player in the second leg of the tie at Murrayfield on Wednesday night – as an 86th-minute substitute.
  • (19) He expressed faith in Russian courts – which issue guilty verdicts in more than 99% of cases – and refused to mention Navalny by name.
  • (20) Wildstein, a high-ranking Port Authority official, pleaded guilty to orchestrating the scheme and was the prosecution’s star witness .

Sin


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Molsidomine and SIN-1 were tested in a thrombosis model in which thrombi are produced in small mesenteric vessels.
  • (2) These results support a hypothesis which proposes that ancestral SIN virus diverged into two distinct groups.
  • (3) Our studies show that SIN-1 and C87-3754 exert beneficial effects in a 6-h model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion.
  • (4) Antibodies to all viruses were detected, and namely in these frequencies: SIN 0.9%, WN 16.9%, TAH 41.5%, CVO 23.1% and TBE 8.5%.
  • (5) As the later Spark might have said, a mortal sin against the commandment to love beauty wherever one may find it.
  • (6) The direct acting stimulants of soluble guanylate cyclase, sodium nitroprusside and SIN-1 (3-morpholino-sydnonimine), also increased the cGMP content of endothelial cells by 9.4 and 7.2 times, respectively.
  • (7) In superfused precontracted strips of rabbit aorta, methylene blue (MeB) or pyocyanin (Pyo, 1-hydroxy-5-methyl phenazinum betaine) at concentrations of 1-10 microM inhibited relaxations induced by endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) or 3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1).
  • (8) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
  • (9) These prostanoids were measured in platelets and endothelial cells alone or during their interaction, in the absence or presence of SIN-1.
  • (10) The haemodynamic effects of N-carboxy-3-morpholino-sydronimine-ethylester (molsidomine, SIN 10, Corvaton) were studied in anaesthetized mongrel dogs.
  • (11) The results indicated that both Sin B and Sal have inductive actions on drug metabolizing-phase I and phase II enzymes in mice and rats.
  • (12) Ten women with SIN were bilaterally salpingectomized.
  • (13) Analysis of the relationship between the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of SIN-1 suggests that an active metabolites is involved.
  • (14) The guanidine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) content (an index of EDRF production) was determined by radioimmunoassay under basal conditions and after acetylcholine (10(-5) M), bradykinin (10(-5) M) and SIN-1 (10(-4) M) stimulation.
  • (15) sin- mutants (defining six genes) were identified because they express HO in the absence of particular SWI products.
  • (16) We studied the effects of intracoronary injections of SIN-1 (0.8 mg), the active metabolite of molsidomine, on coronary artery diameters and coronary stenoses.
  • (17) Sessions included "naming the sin, lifting the shame" and "normal sinfulness or a sickness".
  • (18) The nitric oxide donor compound, 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1), was equipotent at relaxing the central and peripheral airways.
  • (19) Oxyhaemoglobin used for the assay of NO, inhibited the relaxation by SIN-1, but did not reduce vessel relaxations induced by GTN or iloprost, a stable prostacyclin analogue.
  • (20) A degraded SIN-1 solution that did not release NO was unable to block NMDA receptors.

Words possibly related to "sin"