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
  • There’s a strong sense that Feito’s novel got more mileage out of such questions as who is truly sane or insane and whether evil exists in all of us.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
  • The Gunslinger versus the evil Rancher (or space crime syndicate bosses, as the case may be).
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 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
  • Players take on the role of one of four Vault Hunters searching for mythical vaults while trying to take on the planet’s immoral dictator.
    Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 23 May 2026
  • The government has suspended the platform several times, citing concerns that the app promotes immoral or unlawful content.
    CBS News, CBS News, 19 May 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
  • Pratt, who did not respond to a request for comment, lost his Pacific Palisades home in the fires and has won over many frustrated city residents with his anti-establishment message and cheeky AI videos — including one casting him as Batman, taking on a corrupt Democratic bourgeoisie.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 24 May 2026
  • Well, that's absurd, and this was really corrupt from the start.
    CBS News, CBS News, 24 May 2026
Adjective
  • Daisy Ridley's Rey is wicked smart and a capable hero in a universe with the baddies of the First Order on the warpath.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • As Thompson reveals, Lean grew up Quaker and was forbidden from seeing movies, which were considered wicked.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 12 May 2026
Adjective
  • This is the most powerful story about two Korean sisters separated during Japanese occupation in WW2—Hana is taken to Japan and forced to become a comfort woman, meanwhile Emi left behind grows up and spends her life searching for her lost sister.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Rees took over play-calling duties after Week 10 as the Browns sought answers in a lost season.
    Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 19 May 2026
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“Virtueless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtueless. Accessed 25 May. 2026.

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