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Adjective
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Our community is small, and when someone like Scott comes along, we are comforted and start growing confidence that perhaps the city administration will look back at the iniquitous history that left us landless in our own homeland.—
Richard B. Williams,
Denver Post,
10 Sep. 2025 -
That morning, on the day of his exam, looking up at the stone façades, Gabriel suddenly realized that this was a place that existed not despite but because of the iniquitous history exhibited here.—
Daisy Hildyard,
The New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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If the full release can continue to generate oddly pulse-pounding moments like the near-death rooftop fight with an evil-eyed Pikachu, then Z-A might be worth an extended stay in Lumiose.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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The kids discover their small town of Derry is home to an ancient, trans-dimensional evil that awakens every 27 years to prey mostly on children by taking the form of an evil clown named Pennywise.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
23 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Spears writes of these unrighteous men matter-of-factly, avoiding the ad hominem attack, except for an occasional delicious arrow, including a recollection of the eternally white Timberlake meeting one of his rap heroes.—
Stephen Rodrick,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2023
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Christ himself suffered on account of sins, once for all, the righteous one on behalf of the unrighteous.—
Olivia Muenter,
Woman's Day,
8 Feb. 2023
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Unlike previous seasons, Dorothy never makes immoral choices.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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This is disgraceful and immoral.—
Armando Garcia,
ABC News,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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There is nothing quite so sluttish, apparently, as a lustful pistil.—
Stephanie Bunbury,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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He’s got a strong, if not particularly nuanced, voice that served him well over the lustful screams from the audience, which was heavy on young women and families.—
Ross Raihala,
Twin Cities,
23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Our institutions are failing us — either corrupt or underfunded, gutted and useless — and we’re absorbed with stories of characters that manage to save themselves, and on their own terms.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
28 Sep. 2025
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That failure was on corrupt leadership.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For some, that Friday will be extra wicked, but for a good reason.—
Addy Bink,
The Hill,
30 Sep. 2025
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As if Minos inspired such hatred, such fear and disgust, that the feelings themselves boiled up from Daedalus’s heart and gushed out through the tap to cook the wicked king alive.—
Seamus Sullivan
September 29,
Literary Hub,
29 Sep. 2025
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The steering column upper shaft may detach, which can result in lost control.—
Olivia Evans,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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The legend of the Dash expanded from mere omen and ill weather, taking on greater importance as an usher of souls; coming to collect descendants of the lost crew and fold them into the fog of the great unknown.—
Leanna Renee Hieber,
Big Think,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Virtueless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtueless. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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