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iniquitous

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Syn. -- Wicked; wrong; unjust; unrighteous; nefarious; criminal.

Note: Wicked is the generic term. Iniquitous is stronger, denoting a violation of the rights of others, usually by fraud or circumvention. Nefarious is still stronger, implying a breach of the most sacred obligations, and points more directly to the intrinsic badness of the deed.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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“It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice, and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing accordingly.

Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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The woman had a long, brooding, oval face of burnt umber, [...] The father stood very rigid and quaint in a double-breasted suit with padded shoulders that were much too tight for him. [...] Poverty and hard work had inflicted iniquitous damage on both.

Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.183 (1961)
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"It certainly is a most iniquitous affair," said Mr. Bennet, "and nothing can clear Mr. Collins from the guilt of inheriting Longbourn [...]"

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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to listen to him you would think he was contaminated by all the vices of East and West combined, that he was an honourary member of a dozen iniquitous secret societies and was already marked by the police.

Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog, and other stories
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"A pack of damn lies! Slander!"
Vera cried out:
"It's iniquitous!" Her breath came fast. "Wicked!"

Agatha Christie. And Then There Were None. p.43 (1939)
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Anything that hinted at corruption always filled him with a wild hope. Who knew? Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and selfdenial simply a sham concealing iniquity.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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Bobby Denton spitted his audience on a bright and loving gaze, and proceeded to roast it whole over the coals of its own iniquity.

Kurt Vonnegut. The Sirens of Titan (1959)
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