Iniquity
English
Noun
Iniquity (plural iniquities)- Deviation from what is right; wickedness, gross injustice.
- 1994, Jules, Pulp Fiction,
- The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
- 1994, Jules, Pulp Fiction,
- A wrongful act.
- Absence of moral or spiritual values, lawlessness.
- Denial of the sovereignty of God.
Thesaurus
abomination, atrocity, bad, breach, crime, crime against humanity, deadly sin, delinquency, dereliction, diablerie, disgrace, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, illegality, improperness, impropriety, indiscretion, inequitableness, inequity, inexpiable sin, infamy, iniquitousness, injury, injustice, knavery, lapse, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, mortal sin, nonfeasance, obliquity, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, reprobacy, scandal, shame, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, undueness, unjustness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unutterable sin, venial sin, villainy, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulness, wrongness
Etymology
From Middle English iniquite, from Latin iniquitas, from iniquus (“unjust, harmful”).
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