Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Characterized by iniquity; wicked.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked: as, an iniquitous bargain.
  • Synonyms Illegal, Wicked, etc. (see criminal); unfair, inequitable, unrighteous, unprincipled, nefarious.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective wicked or sinful
  • adjective morally objectionable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin

Etymologies

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iniquity +‎ -ous

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Examples

  • Robespierre, a narrow, prudish, jealous, puritanical but able lawyer from Arras, with journalists like Desmoulins and Loustallot, inveighed against what they described as iniquitous class legislation that would have excluded from the councils of the French nation Jean

    The French Revolution A Short History 1893

  • Having failed in a design, which the word iniquitous is scarcely sufficient to characterise, the House of Assembly decidedly assumed a progressive or reform character.

    The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

  • I'm sorry if I sound preachy or scolding, but reading about Reid's perfidy - and that's not too strong a word, nor is "iniquitous" - really set something set me off, today.

    The Anchoress 2008

  • He called his iniquitous vices, follies his licentiousness, love of pleasure his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called ‘fashion’ the fashion of the young men of the day.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

  • He called his iniquitous vices, follies -- his licentiousness, love of pleasure -- his unprincipled expenditure and extravagance, a want of the knowledge of what money was: and his worst sin of all, because the one least likely to be abandoned, his positive, unyielding damning selfishness, he called "fashion" -- the fashion of the young men of the day.

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848

  • No one else's use of the word "iniquitous" would make me laugh so hard.

    Polls: Obama Beating Hillary In Indiana And North Carolina 2009

  • The Democratic Alliance has called for Capetonians to unite against what it says is an "iniquitous" plan to turn key sections of the N1 and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • So pardon me if I take your condemnation of gay marriage as "iniquitous" with a grain of salt.

    04/22/2005 2005

  • The present "iniquitous" situation could not continue.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The South African Legion on Thursday slammed the budget for its failure to address what it described as the "iniquitous" R18 a month allowance paid to war veterans.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

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