iniquity
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Widow’s Bay’s founders damned themselves and all their descendants by burying their iniquity instead of living with it long enough to dispel it and learn from that mistake.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026
“This was not the den of iniquity that has been portrayed.”
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024
Colonialism, once equated by the West with civilizing progress, became synonymous with iniquity.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
But through James’ point of view, it’s just another coming-of-age tale for a young white man who finds himself tickled and intrigued by this seeming den of artistic iniquity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
Preachers used the word iniquity when talking about the strange and wicked.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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"Craig has occasionally been a divisive figure during this five movie stint, from his initial casting ... to his dour performance-style to his off-screen rants about the iniquities of the gig," he wrote.
From Reuters ● Sep. 29, 2021
In the Billboard interview, he used the analogy of buying a house to explain the iniquities of the music industry.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2020
We lament the current social climate as though it were anomalous, an outbreak of pestilence, when in reality these iniquities reverberate through our American centuries.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2020
The pandemic has only underscored the broader problem of compensation in college sports – and the structural iniquities of a billion-dollar industry that runs on the backs of unpaid labor.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2020
I was in favor of this dramatic gesture, for it highlighted the iniquities of the State of Emergency.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The Crucible
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