virtueless

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for virtueless
Adjective
  • That morning, on the day of his exam, looking up at the stone façades, Gabriel suddenly realized that this was a place that existed not despite but because of the iniquitous history exhibited here.
    Daisy Hildyard, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
  • Palestinian leaders rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan for its iniquitous terms, but then accepted partition on significantly less advantageous terms in 1988.
    Hussein Agha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
Adjective
  • She was set to flee the country to escape the clutches of an ancient evil empress who happened to be her wicked stepmother.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • No country will afford to regimes which practice racial discrimination assistance which in its own judgment directly contributes to the pursuit or consolidation of this evil policy.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Spears writes of these unrighteous men matter-of-factly, avoiding the ad hominem attack, except for an occasional delicious arrow, including a recollection of the eternally white Timberlake meeting one of his rap heroes.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
  • He’s gone through buzzard-hot streaks and some slumps, at times taking wholly unrighteous shots, and none of that matters to the shooting guard.
    Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Apr. 2021
Adjective
  • Trump’s contrived veneer is being ripped away to reveal an immoral, mendacious, transactional opportunist, without a shred of loyalty to anyone or anything but himself.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Before these studies, the cause of TB was presumed to be primarily constitutional, by either an inherent predisposition or from unhealthy or immoral lifestyles.
    Karen Dobos, The Conversation, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead of worrying that rich foods would lead to lustful appetites, Americans began worrying that rich foods would kill their libidos.
    Rachel Hope Cleves / Made by History, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The story about Dieter sounds mostly made up, likely by a lustful Kier who invented a lustful brother to cover up his secret shame.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom is a soap opera about a hospital where the doctors aren’t good-looking or vibrating with noble sentiment but generally corrupt or insane.
    Adam Thirlwell, The New York Review of Books, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The Filipino-language thriller follows Dahlia, a disillusioned police aide who steals money from the safe of her corrupt police chief boss, distributing it to slum dwellers whose homes were destroyed.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • A lot of exposition about the wicked stepmother being done very rapidly here.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Steven Lorentz gave his team a 2-1 lead by firing a wicked wrist shot for a short-handed goal in the early third.
    Kevin Papetti, The Athletic, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The Nordic nations, including Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, ranked in the top 10 countries and were among the top places for expected and actual return of lost wallets, the report said.
    Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • These inefficiencies take their toll in the form of lost strategic opportunities.
    Alex Saric, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025
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“Virtueless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/virtueless. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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