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iniquity
noun as in sin, evil
Example Sentences
This is not because small platforms are always pleasant places – many are dens of iniquity – but rather because they are easy to leave and easy to replace, and the harms they generate do not usually spill over into wider society.
As society’s awareness of its iniquity and imbalances grows, media companies are belatedly trying to make their operations more diverse and equitable.
He stormed legendary spots like Palladium and Tunnel, and turned them into strobe-lit dens of iniquity.
He read Borges and admired him, but the title of The Universal History of Iniquity gave him an immediate jolt.
Residents of South Carolina divorce at a rate twice as high as for that den of iniquity, Washington, D.C.
The guerrillas also attacked the hotel, he says, because it was a den of iniquity in the eyes of the puritanical insurgency.
A cynic might question the use of religion as a landing pad when one is tumbling from a place of power into the abyss of iniquity.
For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach.
Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.
For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled.
And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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