iniquity
noun
1 iniquity
Morally objectionable behavior.
synonyms: evil, immorality, wickedness.
Roget 945:
vice;
evil-doing,
evil courses;
wrongdoing;
wickedness,
viciousness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
peccability†,
demerit;
sin,
Adam†;
old Adam†,
offending Adam†.
immorality,
impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity,
looseness of morals;
enphagy†,
dophagy†,
exophagy†;
want of principle,
want of ballast;
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity†,
depravity,
pollution;
hardness of heart;
brutality
etc.
(malevolence)
907;
corruption
etc.
(debasement)
659;
knavery
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
profligacy;
flagrancy,
atrocity;
cannibalism;
lesbianism,
Sadism.
infirmity;
weakness
etc.
adj.;
weakness of the flesh,
frailty,
imperfection;
error;
weak side;
foible;
failing,
failure;
crying sin,
besetting sin;
defect,
deficiency;
cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice,
sink of iniquity,
Alsatian den†;
gusto picaresco [It].
fault,
crime;
criminality
etc.
(guilt)
947.
sinner
etc.
949.
[Resorts]
brothel
etc.
961;
gambling house
etc.
621;
joint [Slang],
opium den,
shooting gallery,
crack house.
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2 iniquity
An unjust act.
synonyms: injustice, shabbiness, unfairness.
Roget 923:
wrong;
what ought not to be,
what should not be;
malum in se [Lat.];
unreasonableness,
grievance;
shame.
injustice;
tort [Law];
unfairness
etc.
adj.;
iniquity,
foul play.
partiality,
leaning,
bias;
favor,
favoritism;
nepotism,
party spirit,
partisanship;
bigotry.
undueness
etc.
925;
wrongdoing
(vice)
945;
unlawfulness
etc.
964.
robbing Peter to pay Paul
etc.
v.;
the wolf and the lamb;
vice
etc.
945.
a custom more honored in the breach than the a custom more honored in the breach than the observance"
[Hamlet].
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Dutch: afdwaling, misstand, wantoestand
Polish: niesprawiedliwość, krzywda
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