Iniquity

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Gross immorality or injustice; wickedness.
  • n. A grossly immoral act; a sin.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Deviation from what is right; wickedness, gross injustice.
  • n. A wrongful act.
  • n. Absence of moral or spiritual values, lawlessness.
  • n. Denial of the sovereignty of God.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; lack of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness
  • n. An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.
  • n. A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Lack of equity; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness: as, the iniquity of the slave-trade.
  • n. A violation of right or duty; an unjust or wicked action; a wilful wrong or crime.
  • n. In Scots law, inequity; a judicial act or decision contrary to law or equity.
  • n. [capitalized] A comic character or buffoon in the medieval English moralities or moral plays, often otherwise called the Vice, and sometimes by the name of the particular vice he represented.
  • n. Synonyms and Sin, Transgression, etc. See crime.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. absence of moral or spiritual values
  • n. an unjust act
  • n. morally objectionable behavior
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Variant
    vice   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unrighteousness    wickedness    sin    crime    injustice    sink   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    ubiquity   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wickedness    injustice    immorality    depravity    ingratitude    falsehood    oppression    infidelity    vice    blasphemy