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Sexual Dictionary

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(1) Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) in All the King's Men (1949): ' Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption .'

(2) Gwendolyn Chelm (Jennifer Jones) to Mr. Petersen (Robert Morley) in Beat the Devil (1954): ' Isn't that what we're all concerned with, sin? '

(3) Tom (Nick Nolte) and Susan (Barbra Streisand) in The Prince of Tides (1991):
-- Tom Wingo: ' Lowenstein, I think I like adultery .'
-- Susan Lowenstein: ' That's why they made it a sin .'

(4) The narrator (Jodhi May) in The Scarlet Letter (1995): ' Who is to say what is a sin in God's eye? '

(5) John Milton (Al Pacino) in The Devil's Advocate (1998): ' Vanity is definitely my favorite sin .'

2. To transgress the laws of God; to commit an illegal or immoral act(ion).
Synonyms: backslide; be wicked; break commandment; break law; cheat ; commit crime; commit sin; deviate ; do wrong; err; fall; fall from grace; go astray; lapse; live in sin; misbehave; misconduct; offend; stray; take the primrose path; transgress; trespass; wallow in the mire; wander.

Quotes:

(1) Lucius, the narrator (Burgess Meredith) in The Reivers (1969): ' Boone knew something I didn't, that the rewards of virtue are cold , and odorless, and tasteless, and not to be compared with the bright and exciting pleasures of sin and wrong-doing .'

(2) Mrs. Flax (Cher) and her daughter Charlotte (Winona Ryder) in Mermaids (1990):
-- Mrs. Flax: ' Okay, how do I look? '
-- Charlotte: ' Like a woman about to go forth in sin .'
-- Mrs. Flax: ' Oh, good. Exactly the look I was hoping for .'

3. By extension, a transgression of any law, standard , code, etc. ' It's a sin to throw food .'

Quote: Howard (Woody Allen) in The Front (1976): ' In my family the biggest sin was to buy retail .'

4. Something regarded as shameful, wrongul or wicked. Synonyms: evil; evildoing; iniquity; malefaction; tort; transgression; trespass; violation; crime; felony; misdemeanor; villainy; misdeed; offense; infraction; unrighteousness; wrong; wrongdoing.

Quotes:

(1) Alexis Zorba (Anthony Quinn) to the Englishman Basil (Alan Bates) in Zorba the Greek (1964): ' If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart , but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go .'

(2) Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) to Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford) in Working Girl (1988): ' I have a head for business and a bod for sin .'

5. Sin of many men , obsolete literary allusion to ejaculated semen or the ejaculation of semen . According to James T. Henke in Courtesans and Cuckolds. A Glossary of Renaissance Dramatic Bawdy (1979): ' A seminal emission in the vagina of a whore literally would be a "sin" .'

6. Sin's attorney , obsolete literary euphemism for a pimp or pander .

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