The word 'sinful' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone or something that is morally wrong or offensive. For example: "The reckless actions of the politician were truly sinful."
Those God-fearing Free Presbyterians the Paisleys do not approve of betting, which they see as being as sinful as supping the "devil's buttermilk" (ie booze).
It is, says Alawi, just the latest move in a series of state-endorsed acts of cultural vandalism, urged on by the hardline wahhabist sect, which perceives historic sites and the veneration of the prophet as encouraging sinful idolatry.
The group, whose name means "western education is sinful", has killed thousands and abducted hundreds since launching an uprising in 2009.
The kidnapping of more than 270 girls from Chibok three weeks ago has captured the world's attention, but Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sinful", has been systematically taking women from schools or villages across north-eastern Nigeria since May last year.
"There is a huge pile of construction waste that's building up in this country and to ignore is quite frankly sinful," said Baker-Brown, co-founder of BBM Sustainable Design and a senior lecturer at the arts faculty.
Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sinful", is an ever-present threat, he says: "We don't know when they will come".
Alawi says this wilful destruction of Islamic heritage is no accident: it is driven by state-endorsed wahhabism, the hardline interpretation of Islam that perceives historical sites as encouraging sinful idolatry.
The sword is associated with "courage" in the poem's first line, and angrily rejected in the last: Supposing that I should have the courage To let a red sword of virtue Plunge into my heart, Letting to the weeds of the ground My sinful blood, What can you offer me?
Boko Haram, whose name means "western education is sinful", was an ever-present threat, he said: "We don't know when they will come".
This sinful woman was flying home to her husband and child after a girlie weekend which wasn't over until it was over.
Some support suicide bombing, attacks on British troops in Iraq or Afghanistan and other forms of violent extremism, but they are supported by the government so long as they don't support violence in the UK – even where they support unacceptable domestic policies like saying it's wrong for Muslims to vote or it's sinful for a woman to get into a taxi alone with a man she's not related to.
