virtueless

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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
Adjective
  • Another pair of wins from KPop Demon Hunters, which are attached to the evil boy band Saja Boys, cracked the top 10 as well, and several members – the group is made up of Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo and Samuil Lee – are usually classified as K-pop artists.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • The filmmaker’s post included a photo of himself with a puppet of Metal Sonic, an evil robot version of Sonic from the gaming franchise that was teased at the end of the third movie.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
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
Adjective
  • Each side views members of the other party not as merely having a different view on politics but rather as evil or immoral.
    James Piazza, Twin Cities, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Pope Francis changed the church’s social teaching to declare capital punishment immoral in all cases.
    Nicole Winfield, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • But to our wonderful surprise, O’Hara is equally adept at slapstick hijinks, as the lustful ladies get sufficiently sozzled awaiting their mysterious beau.
    Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 3 May 2026
  • And, no doubt, women in the original 1920s audience presumably had comparable lustful desires as the pair on stage; this was hardly the only Coward comedy of its era to be used for foreplay.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Well remember, there’s a corrupt shadow hanging over the Supreme Court.
    NBC news, NBC news, 10 May 2026
  • Voicer Chris Lee conjures a hypothetically corrupt fire inspection system to oppose battery storage.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
Adjective
  • As Thompson reveals, Lean grew up Quaker and was forbidden from seeing movies, which were considered wicked.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 May 2026
  • Go enjoy a wicked musical from before America lost so much of its sense of humor.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2026
Adjective
  • The game Campbell is forced to play represents a lost art in the men's professional game.
    Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 12 May 2026
  • Reis Beck Simi Youth Baseball A third death occurred on the night of May 7 in Garden Grove, where a 13-year-old lost control of an e-motorcycle while traveling about 35 miles per hour and collided with the center median.
    Austin Turner, CBS News, 11 May 2026
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“Virtueless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtueless. Accessed 18 May. 2026.

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