| Total entries | 764 | ||
| Duplicated articles | 207 | ||
| Word used in foreign language, or name | 30 | ||
| Working total | 527 | ||
| Contemporary use of term | 284 | ||
| Sin bin – Rugby, ice-hockey | 267 | ||
| Sin bin – general | 9 | ||
| Sin stock – investments in tobacco, defence etc. | 4 | ||
| Sin taxes/levy – tax on alcohol, tobacco etc. | 4 | ||
| Media references | 60 | ||
| Sins of fathers/parents – ref to film Run All Night | 23 | ||
| Seven Deadly Sins–TV series | 23 | ||
| Book titles | – 14th Deadly Sin | 5 | |
| – 2nd Deadly Sin | 1 | ||
| – The Sin Eater's Daughter | 1 | ||
| Song lyrics | – ‘Guilty as Sin’ | 2 | |
| – ‘Holy Water’ | 1 | ||
| – ‘Devil Pray’ | 1 | ||
| – ‘Sins of St Catherine’ | 1 | ||
| Crossword clues | 2 | ||
| Figures of speech | 111 | ||
| Use of word as provoking disapproval | 23 | ||
| Use of word for ironic/mild wrongdoing | 22 | ||
| Cardinal sin | 15 | ||
| Sins of omission | 7 | ||
| Covering a multitude of sins | 7 | ||
| Sins of fathers – general | 6 | ||
| Seven deadly sins – general | 6 | ||
| Miserable as sin | 5 | ||
| For my sins | 3 | ||
| Guilty as sin | 3 | ||
| Living in sin | 2 | ||
| Valley of sin | 1 | ||
| Atoning for sins | 1 | ||
| Be sure your sins will find you out | 1 | ||
| Love the sinner, hate the sin | 1 | ||
| Religious use | 25 | ||
| Articles or letters in local papers | 18 | ||
| Christian Science Monitor | 5 | ||
| Notices of church services | 2 | ||
| Use as serious issue | 28 | ||
| Abandoning elderly | 9 | ||
| Racism | 6 | ||
| Debt and finance | 5 | ||
| Murder/violence | 2 | ||
| Gay | 2 | ||
| Religious education | 1 | ||
| Envy | 1 | ||
| Selfishness | 1 | ||
| Pornography | 1 | ||
| Use in other contexts | 19 | ||
| Varied historical references | 9 | ||
| Islam | 9 | ||
| Hinduism | 1 | ||
| Total entries (Duplicated articles 54) | 861 | |
| Working total | 805 | |
| Crime | 105 | |
| Murder (murder of 8-year-old Ayesha Ali, by mother and lesbian lover) | 43 | |
| Child abuse | 19 | |
| Attacks | 16 | |
| Sex crime/rape | 15 | |
| Other | 10 | |
| Islam/terrorists(trial of Jihadi John) | 105 | |
| Serious | 104 | |
| Nazism | 11 | |
| Condemnation of gays | 9 | |
| Drugs | 6 | |
| Political right/UKIP | 6 | |
| Tobacco | 6 | |
| Communism | 5 | |
| Russia post-Communism | 5 | |
| Dog poisoning (at Crufts) | 5 | |
| China power and oppression | 4 | |
| Crowd taunt suicidal man | 4 | |
| Cruel Tweets | 4 | |
| ‘Possessed’ child | 4 | |
| Colonialism | 3 | |
| Climate change | 2 | |
| Tax avoidance | 2 | |
| Chemical weapons Syria | 2 | |
| North Korean regime | 2 | |
| Racism | 2 | |
| Political hypocrisy | 1 | |
| Catholicism | 1 | |
| Misused Third World aid | 1 | |
| Illiteracy and innumeracy | 1 | |
| Other | 20 | |
| Ironic | 39 | |
| Tories | 6 | |
| Mourinho | 4 | |
| Capitalism/profit motive | 3 | |
| FiFA | 2 | |
| Rupert Murdoch | 2 | |
| Feminists | 2 | |
| Predatory men | 2 | |
| State | 2 | |
| Scottish Parliament conspiracy | 2 | |
| Fossil fuels | 1 | |
| UKIP | 1 | |
| Tony Blair | 1 | |
| British armed Forces | 1 | |
| Other | 10 | |
| Trivial | 39 | |
| Sugar | 5 | |
| Motorists as seen by cyclists | 2 | |
| Culinary – calorific | 2 | |
| Alcohol | 2 | |
| Spin doctor ‘evil genius’ | 1 | |
| Fashion industry | 1 | |
| Baby formula milk | 1 | |
| Large conglomerates | 1 | |
| Eastern Europeans Eurovision | 1 | |
| Chocolate | 1 | |
| Other | 22 | |
| Drama: film, TV, theatre | 232 | |
| Novels | 37 | |
| Computer games | 18 | |
| Historical | 20 | |
| Superstition/evil spirits (Friday 13th, eclipse) | 33 | |
| Religious | 18 | |
| Local paper | 13 | |
| National papers opinion | 3 | |
| Christian Science Monitor | 2 | |
| Figures of speech | 55 | |
| Necessary evil | 19 | |
| Hear, see, speak no evil | 19 | |
| Lesser/greater of evils | 7 | |
| Putting off evil day | 2 | |
| Give the evil eye | 1 | |
| Love of money . . . | 1 | |
| Root of all evil (other) | 1 | |
| Triumph of good over evil | 1 | |
| Other | 4 |
| Total references | 15 | |
| Number of which are Irish | 6 | |
| Serious references | 6 | |
| Evil tobacco etc. – sin stocks | 2 | |
| Slave railroad | 1 | |
| Mary Macaleese on Catholic reform | 1 | |
| Irish memoir | 1 | |
| Boko Haram | 1 | |
| Trivial | 3 | |
| Evil eye-patch – Seven Deadly Sins | 1 | |
| Evil bounce – sin bin (rugby) | 1 | |
| Evil villain - Sin City | 1 | |
| Figures of speech | 2 | |
| Putting off evil day – sins of omission | 1 | |
| Lesser of two evils – grave sins | 1 | |
| Religious use | 4 | |
| Local papers | 3 | |
| Christian Science Monitor | 1 |