in the clear vs sinful

in the clear

prep
  • Not guilty or not suspected of wrongdoing. 

  • Transmitted without encryption or scrambling. 

  • No longer in danger. 

sinful

adj
  • Constituting a sin; morally or religiously wrong; wicked; evil 

  • Having sinned; guilty of sin. 

  • decadent (luxuriously self-indulgent) 

How often have the words in the clear and sinful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )