iniquitousness

noun

Definition of iniquitousnessnext
as in corruption
immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society a movie about an unhinged taxi driver who is disgusted by the iniquitousness of the city's tenderloin and goes on a murderous rampage

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for iniquitousness
  1. corruption
  2. evil
  3. sin
  4. immorality
Noun
  • Aliyev has maintained power through electoral fraud, widespread corruption, and the arrest and torture of political opponents and journalists.
    Paul du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • But endemic corruption, economic crises, the Beirut explosion and the collapse of the government reversed those gains.
    Aryn Baker, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • The show felt joyously anarchic and kind of evil at the same time.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • As the film’s wealthy Pennsylvania industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren, Pearce creates a psychologically penetrating portrait of a man who is by turns generous and predatory, inquisitive and closed off, someone who ultimately reveals himself to be capable of true evil.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of evil
Noun
  • And when one of the most romantic gestures to happen on television this year occurs — Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), who not long before had begged Mariko to live for him, steps up to be her second, to free her of that sin and deal the final blow — her gratitude and love for him is palpable.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Traversing the Holy Door is one way that the faithful can obtain indulgences, or forgiveness for sins during a Jubilee, a once-every-quarter-century tradition that dates from 1300.
    Pilar Arias, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of sin
Noun
  • What captivated me about the series was its unwillingness to sugarcoat the immorality of man.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The history of medicine is too littered with incompetence and immorality to believe that doctors have always been worthy of this status.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of immorality
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Thesaurus Entries Near iniquitousness

iniquitous

iniquitousness

iniquity

See More Nearby Entries 

Cite this Entry

“Iniquitousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/iniquitousness. Accessed 6 Jan. 2025.

Copy Citation

Share

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Popular in Grammar & Usage

See All

31 Useful Rhetorical Devices

Using Bullet Points ( • )

'Gray' vs. 'Grey': What is the difference?

Why is '-ed' sometimes pronounced at the end of a word?

What's the difference between 'fascism' and 'socialism'?
See All

Popular in Wordplay

See All

Terroir, Oenophile, & Magnum: Ten Words About Wine

8 Words for Lesser-Known Musical Instruments

10 Words from Taylor Swift Songs (Merriam's Version)

9 Superb Owl Words

15 Words That Used to Mean Something Different
See All

Games & Quizzes

See All
Play Quordle: Guess all four words in a limited number of tries. Each of your guesses must be a real 5-letter word.
Quordle Can you solve 4 words at once?
Play Blossom: Solve today's spelling word game by finding as many words as you can using just 7 letters. Longer words score more points.
Blossom Word Game Pick the best words!
Play Missing Letter: a crossword with a twist. Each of the 25 puzzle words start with a different letter of the alphabet. Which letter is missing?
Missing Letter A daily crossword with a twist
tiny woman sitting on a pile of books reading
Little Words, Big Vocabulary Quiz Time to sweat the small stuff.