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virtueless

adjective

Definition of virtuelessnext
as in iniquitous

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtueless
  1. iniquitous
  2. evil
  3. unrighteous
  4. immoral
  5. lustful
  6. corrupt
  7. wicked
  8. lost
Adjective
  • 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
Definition of iniquitous
Adjective
  • The correspondence helped convince Anders, who fled the Nazis for American exile in 1936, that different kinds of evil cause different kinds of harm.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The destination of our hapless hero, a courier (Austin Abrams, absolutely awesome) who must transport an important package between medical facilities, is indeed the game’s residentially evil homebase of Racoon City.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of evil
Adjective
  • Ivey recently described the LGBTQ community as unrighteous in a live stream from his Instagram account.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Ancient sacred writings teach us to avoid using unrighteous means to oppose the unrighteous demands of wicked rulers.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2026
Definition of unrighteous
Adjective
  • Some sources expand on the account in Genesis, suggesting the Sodomites were not only immoral but positively antimoral.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • What’s so immoral about a goal scored accidentally with a hand or arm anyway?
    — Graham Scott, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of immoral
Adjective
  • Robert also identifies the lustful subtext of Bret’s fixation on Robert and Susan together.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026
  • In March, the Miami Herald also joined Welty and the Croc Docs on a trip deep in the interior of the northern Everglades to track down lustful male pythons.
    — Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
Definition of lustful
Adjective
  • Many choose to make use of a corrupt brokerage system, where people with connections in the foreign ministry and other regime appendages facilitate large bribes for new, and sometimes fake, documentation.
    — Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026
  • But already the thought tugged at me that the scales that had turned were not celestial, but legal, the workings of the same system condemned in the camp as corrupt and broken.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of corrupt
Adjective
  • Both our indignation when the wicked flourish and our sorrow when the righteous suffer have their source in this assumption.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
  • After crash landing on the dark world directly onto the homing beacon, EO and his crazy crew are apprehended by a gang of warrior henchmen and hauled into the throne room to face the wicked alien ruler who is imprisoned in anger and hate.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of wicked
Adjective
  • Rush finished 10 of 17 for 86 yards with two interceptions and a lost fumble.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • Watching Hassan Phills’s stand-up is an exercise in restoring the lost nuance.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of lost
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“Virtueless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtueless. Accessed 29 Sep. 2026.

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