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Recent Examples of iniquity Not always, of course; like any subset of humanity, churches are just as likely to be filled with iniquity, pettiness, and spite. Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024 Recommended reading: In our new special issue, a Wall Street legend gets a radical makeover, a tale of crypto iniquity, misbehaving poultry royalty, and more. Read the stories. Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 9 Sep. 2024 In our new special issue, a Wall Street legend gets a radical makeover, a tale of crypto iniquity, misbehaving poultry royalty, and more. Margaret Franklin, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2024 In our new special issue, a Wall Street legend gets a radical makeover, a tale of crypto iniquity, misbehaving poultry royalty, and more. Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for iniquity
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Noun
  • Indonesia’s Attorney General’s Office claims that corruption tied to these export permits cost the state 12.3 trillion rupiah ($755 million).
    Lionel Lim, Fortune, 18 June 2025
  • Maybe the game doesn’t die in corruption but in the apathy of those who stop caring.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • This national recognition of the evils of slavery comes during a significant backlash against teaching American history, as well as an erosion of other civil rights, namely a rollback of voting rights in places that have high populations of Black voters.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 18 June 2025
  • The primary concern of the book was pacifism—the rejection of all violence, even to combat evil.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The fact is, Sinners is not about sin in the religious sense but more about America’s most significant secular violation: its refusal to face itself.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Yet no former secretary of state has been more vehemently criticized, most notably for sins of omission and commission in countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chile and East Timor.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • While working together on The Unit, David Mamet once told you that good drama isn’t a choice between good and bad; good drama is the choice between two bads.
    Max Gao, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Reports out of fall camp haven’t been super favorable to their offense, and while the defense will, again, be top-notch, a team with this bad of an offense cannot be trusted.
    Austin Mock, The Athletic, 19 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Omari’s father, Hassan (J. Paul Nicholas), is the conservative Muslim governor of Mombasa, fond of attacking the immorality in nightclubs like the Moto Moto, where most of Goddess is set, though he’s withdrawn from his reelection campaign after an illness.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 May 2025
  • Yair Golan, a former Israeli deputy commander and chairman of the Democrats party in the Knesset, offered on Monday perhaps the strongest political rebuke of Netanyahu’s government yet, accusing the prime minister of leading the nation down a path of immorality and destruction.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 22 May 2025

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“Iniquity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/iniquity. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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