How to Use iniquity in a Sentence

iniquity

noun
  • In sports, though, there are many winning plays, and that goes for ways to protest iniquity as well.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2017
  • And – not to put too fine a point on it, but casinos are also dens of iniquity.
    — Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • Their pact of iniquity is with the Billboard charts and T-shirt sales.
    — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
  • But those looking for such dens of iniquity in China will be looking for a long, long time.
    — Stacey Anderson, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • Today, the red vinyl bar stools and movie star caricatures on the walls welcome you to into this dive-y den of iniquity.
    — Lesley Solmonson, Smithsonian, 24 Feb. 2017
  • The result is an energetic, colourful tour of the city’s dens of iniquity.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Advertisement And — not to put too fine a point on it, but casinos are also dens of iniquity.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 July 2023
  • The Bible talks about the mystery of iniquity or in some versions the spirit of lawlessness.
    — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 23 Aug. 2019
  • This book makes the case that there is a subtler iniquity in the sins of forgetting, in papering over, in moving in and moving on.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Will responding to the gaffe of the day by demanding a six-step apology usher in an age of justice for all, or an end to iniquity?
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • This is the way of this world in the day of that other’s; make yourselves friends by means of the riches of iniquity, for the wealth of the self is the health of the self exchanged.
    — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 3 July 2021
  • But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
    — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Parents and teachers stepped up local efforts to quash gaming, lest children wind up in one of these dens of digital iniquity.
    — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Not always, of course; like any subset of humanity, churches are just as likely to be filled with iniquity, pettiness, and spite.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2024
  • For Christians, this ultimate sacrifice and defeat of death form the entire basis of the faith — a cleansing of iniquity and sin.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Pinocchio’s flirtations with a career in the circus, or a life of iniquity with Lampwick, are the result of nothing more than pure naivete.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2022
  • For long periods of time, the iniquities of the Middle East can appear frozen, and, therefore, manageable.
    — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Its Los Angeles is still stalked by femme fatales and political iniquity, though the old glamour is thinning.
    — Zoe Hu, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Despite its indignities and iniquities, commercial air travel is still a great leveler.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The iniquity of what was done to Seberg, harrying her into a breakdown, is beyond dispute; but there’s a problem with Andrews’s movie.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2019
  • But her true target is the persistence of social iniquity both in the Philippines and among Filipinos in America.
    — New York Times, 2 May 2018
  • Sparafucile’s den of iniquity—both generically impoverished, though the latter has a bar setup in the center.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Miraculously, the story grants an exemption to the virtuous white elites who have taken on black people as their moral wards—whites who preen and shake their fists and lament the iniquity, inequity and shame of it all.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 16 May 2021
  • Colonialism, once equated by the West with civilizing progress, became synonymous with iniquity.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 10 Dec. 2023
  • The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 was supposed to end that iniquity.
    — ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • In our new special issue, a Wall Street legend gets a radical makeover, a tale of crypto iniquity, misbehaving poultry royalty, and more.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In our new special issue, a Wall Street legend gets a radical makeover, a tale of crypto iniquity, misbehaving poultry royalty, and more.
    — Margaret Franklin, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The musical Hamilton does the same thing in its ambivalent dynamic of denouncing slavery’s iniquities while suggesting that its own protagonists were exempt from them.
    — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2019
  • In 2021, by contrast, the past — that seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of knowledge, culture and human achievement — is too often portrayed as little better than a vile sink of iniquity.
    — Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Alberto Moravia’s most famous novel, Two Women, published in 1957, is a tale of iniquity in which no one is spared, told from the point of view of two women, a mother and daughter.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023

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