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A phrase used as an intensifier for a negative description or situation. I wouldn't buy that painting, it's ugly as sin. I know who ate the chocolate chip cookies—there's chocolate all over your face! You're guilty as sin! A: "Is Mark OK? He looks miserable as sin." B: "Yeah, he just found out he didn't get into his first-choice school."
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sin

n. synthetic marijuana. (Drugs. From synthetic.) Most of this stuff the kids put down good money for is not sin but angel dust.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Sin of Lust.There is unfortunately a feeling among some leaders sex is seen as some sort of fringe leadership benefit.
A useful explanation of sin, derived from the Quran, is given by Dr Farhad Shafti, a Quran scholar and teacher.
'Extraordinary statement by a Head of State (and we have had many this week at the UN): my 'only' sin is #EJK.
'You must make conscious effort to avoid sins and you should not abuse the mercy of God because sins accuse Christians before God.'
Yet the church still maintains its mortal sin status for this omission.
Bf (t) = [[infinity].summation over (n=1)] [a.sub.n+1] sin nt = [[infinity].summation over (n=1)] [a.sub.n] sin (n - 1)t.
This one grand hypothesis of original sin is believed to account for all the evil among men.
Before we look to the more immediate work of our colleagues, we do well to consider how sin functioned in the church for the years before Vatican II.
Surviving Sin City with Tiffani Neilson is a dynamic Online TV magazine profiling celebrities, lifestyle, fashion, music, events, nightlife, etc.
When we commit sin, we're transgressing against ourselves, and transgression by definition is an imbalance.
A mechanism for atonement and forgiveness of sin is central to all religions.
The core of Sin denims is about comfort with innovations in style to match the new age consumer needs.
[[summation].sup.n.sub.k = 0] sin kx = sin(1/2nx) sin[1/2(n + 1)x] sin(1/2x),
30 -- If the bishops' council in Kerala has its way, alcohol consumption would become a sin for over 5 million Catholics in the State.
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