(n.) One who has sinned; especially, one who has sinned without repenting; hence, a persistent and incorrigible transgressor; one condemned by the law of God.
(v. i.) To act as a sinner.
Example Sentences:
(1) But, as the church itself proclaims, redemption is always possible for a sinner.
(2) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
(3) The two great Edinburgh novels - pre-Rebus, of course - are James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, whose diableries and doublings take place partly in the Old Town's back courts and, though it doesn't mention the place at all, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Neither has much in the way of urban geography or familiar landmarks.
(4) It was kinder and gentler than what I had been getting in my church up to that point with people telling me it was an evil spirit and I was an unrepentant sinner.
(5) It even featured one academic, Taj Hargey from Oxford, referring to Shias as sinners.
(6) The aim is to make you feel guilty, unclean, a sinner in the eyes of God, and of course in the withering stare of the preacher.
(7) Robert Wringhim In James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner , a satire on Calvinism, Robert Wringhim's religiously dogmatic guardian convinces him that he is one of "the Elect" – those pre-selected by God for salvation.
(8) Mr Clinton declared himself a sinner with "a broken spirit" as a result of his liaison with Ms Lewinsky, to whom he issued a public apology for the first time.
(9) And if it’s a choice then it’s a lot easier to demonize it.” Recalling how believing that he was a sinner made him depressed, Nesbitt said he “was buying all that hook, line and sinker and of course it makes you feel like you’re a failure.
(10) Reforms made under the Gillard government still allow religious organisations – including many schools and some of the largest employers in the country – to discriminate against those it deems sinners.
(11) If in the Bible, sinners "strain out the gnat and swallow the camel", in Greece the sinful powers that be strain out pensions and swallow lists – in order, of course, to make them disappear.
(12) We're all just a bunch of sinners crashing around in the darkness (5) .
(13) The Russian Orthodox church has called feminist punk band Pussy Riot "sinners", their concerts a "boorish, arrogant and aggressive" challenge to Christians.
(14) Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.
(15) That a homosexual -- man or woman -- is neither a sinner nor a sick person is the thesis of this paper by an authority on sexual deviation.
(16) When the game basically came down to one play, where the Ravens had to make a stop on 4th and goal and the 49ers had to convert a touchdown it almost didn't matter whether the younger brother or the older brother would prevail, which quarterback would later smile to the camera and say he was going to Disney World or whether or not Ray Lewis, whether you thought him saint or sinner, would end his career on a win or a loss.
(17) Haggard talked openly about what he calls "my scandal", but also clearly felt that it left him an undeserving sinner.
(18) We are all sinners ... the Bible phrase I use most is ‘you don’t pick out the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye when there is a plank in your own’.” In that formulation both sawdust and plank are sins – it’s just not a Christian’s business to go around dressing people down for their faults.
(19) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
(20) These animals were not impossible symbols of righteousness, but sinners, like ourselves.
Skinner
Definition:
(n.) One who skins.
(n.) One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
Example Sentences:
(1) Absolute has raised its profile with big-name signings such as Frank Skinner and bought live Premier League football rights for the first time for this season .
(2) Roll-up man 3.50pm GMT Thank you to Tom Skinner for this educational and informative video .
(3) The main Absolute Radio station, which features presenters including breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell, Frank Skinner and Dave Gorman, had an average weekly reach of 1.375 million listeners in the final quarter of last year, down 16.9% on the previous quarter and 7.9% year on year.
(4) Expecting defeat, but somehow clutching on to hope … Well, Frank [Skinner] and David [Baddiel] wrote that part of the lyrics, but the reason I got them in after the FA asked me to write a song was that I thought it was only worth making if it reflected how it feels to be a football fan.
(5) During performance of a learned task either in the Skinner box or in a conditioned sound-bar pressing task, SWD were suppressed in epileptic rats as long as they were working for reinforcement.
(6) "Mrs Skinner desperately wants this matter resolved as quickly as possible."
(7) Avoidance learning in a shuttle box or food reinforced learning in a Skinner test were unimpaired or even improved in epileptic rats.
(8) She says the case that the MP Dennis Skinner raised in PMQs last week is typical of many she sees: a constituent, dying of cancer, lost his benefits in an Atos case and died before it was reviewed.
(9) His once-visionary keywords have grotesque afterlives: Big Brother is a TV franchise to make celebrities of nobodies and Room 101 a light-entertainment show on BBC2 currently hosted by Frank Skinner for celebrities to witter about stuff that gets their goat.
(10) Skinner says it "really got quite nasty" and he did not speak to his manager, Avalon joint managing director Jon Thoday, for three days.
(11) B. F. Skinner's legacy to human behavioral research for the study of environment-infant interactions, and indeed for the conception of development itself, is described and exemplified.
(12) 9.10am: This from our sports news correspondent Owen Gibson, via Twitter: "A nervous looking David Baddiel and Frank Skinner on our flight to Port Elizabeth.
(13) The other MPs are Natascha Engel (North East Derbyshire), Michael Meacher (Oldham West and Royton), Meg Hillier (Hackney South and Shoreditch), Austin Mitchell (Grimsby), Dennis Skinner (Bolsover), John McDonnell (Hayes and Harlington) and Grahame Morris (Easington).
(14) Antibody reactivity against herpes simplex virus (HSV) was investigated in 15 subjects who received three subcutaneous immunisations with Skinner HSV vaccine.
(15) Jeff Skinner and Jay Harrison scored for the Hurricanes.
(16) A series of genetic deletions based partly on two RNA secondary structure models (M. A. Skinner, V. R. Racaniello, G. Dunn, J. Cooper, P. D. Minor, and J. W. Almond, J. Mol.
(17) They were initially deprived of food and then trained to work for food reward in a Skinner box to a fixed ratio of ten presses for each pellet received.
(18) Asked whether, in retirement, she would still oppose a European central bank, Mr Skinner fed her a line, shouting: 'No, she's goin' to be the guv'nor.'
(19) It was made by the London jeweller Bentley & Skinner, and a proud photograph of it can be seen on the wall in the firm's Piccadilly window.
(20) Rachel Louise wrote: “How can BGT allow a stunt double for the dog and try to hide it, shouldn’t be allowed to be the winner!” Niamh Skinner said: “I’ve just been informed that Matisse had a stunt double doing the tightrope walk.