How to Use iniquity in a Sentence

iniquity

noun

• Their pact of iniquity is with the Billboard charts and T-shirt sales.
  — Bob Larsen, SPIN, 12 Feb. 2022
• In sports, though, there are many winning plays, and that goes for ways to protest iniquity as well.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2017
• 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
• The question then was: Where would people go for their fix of iniquity?
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Las Vegas and Atlantic City were known as dens of iniquity.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 12 Feb. 2022
• 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
• To blame your own iniquities on someone else is unfair.
  — Alexia Fernandez, PEOPLE.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• 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
• Don’t even get Bad Bunny started on the iniquity of purses.
  — Allure, 13 Oct. 2021
• The Playboy Mansion’s history as a den of iniquity is true, but most of the more libidinous stories date from the distant past.
  — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 30 July 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But the iniquity of the northern labor camps, the old Gulag, inspires reflections about wasted life.
  — WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And 2015’s A Bigger Splash relies on the den of iniquity on the island of Pantelleria in which its protagonists pursue their misbegotten fates.
  — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 7 Nov. 2017
• 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
• Sparafucile’s den of iniquity—both generically impoverished, though the latter has a bar setup in the center.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2022
• 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
• Despite its indignities and iniquities, commercial air travel is still a great leveler.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 13 Oct. 2017
• New limited series Black Narcissus will follow one convent’s intense struggle to maintain its sanctitude amidst a community that tests it devotion to God, carefully toeing the line between piety and iniquity.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 22 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024