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iniquity

/ih-nik-wi-tee/US // ɪˈnɪk wɪ ti //UK // (ɪˈnɪkwɪtɪ) //

不义之财,邪恶,邪恶之处,恶行

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·iq·ui·ties.

    • : gross injustice or wickedness.
    • : a violation of right or duty; wicked act; sin.

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Examples

  • As society’s awareness of its iniquity and imbalances grows, media companies are belatedly trying to make their operations more diverse and equitable.

  • He stormed legendary spots like Palladium and Tunnel, and turned them into strobe-lit dens of iniquity.

  • He read Borges and admired him, but the title of The Universal History of Iniquity gave him an immediate jolt.

  • Residents of South Carolina divorce at a rate twice as high as for that den of iniquity, Washington, D.C.

  • The guerrillas also attacked the hotel, he says, because it was a den of iniquity in the eyes of the puritanical insurgency.

  • A cynic might question the use of religion as a landing pad when one is tumbling from a place of power into the abyss of iniquity.

  • For better is the iniquity of a man, than a woman doing a good turn, and a woman bringing shame and reproach.

  • Be not very angry, O Lord, and remember no longer our iniquity: behold, see we are all thy people.

  • For the greatness of thy iniquity, thy nakedness is discovered, the soles of thy feet are defiled.

  • And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.

  • Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.