Iniquity

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=iq=ui=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

Iniquity, n. [OE. iniquitee, F. iniquité, L. iniquitas, inequality, unfairness, injustice. See Iniquous.].

•  Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; lack of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.  [1913 Webster]

  "Till the world from his perfection fell
  Into all filth and foul iniquity."  [1913 Webster]
•  An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

  "Your iniquities have separated between you and your God."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Acts old Iniquity, and in the fit
  Of miming gets the opinion of a wit."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Iniquity, n. (pl. -ies)
1 wickedness; unrighteousness.
2 a gross injustice.

Derivative

iniquitous adj. iniquitously adv. iniquitousness n.

Etymology

ME f. OF iniquit{eacute} f. L iniquitas -tatis f. iniquus (as IN-(1), aequus just)

THESAURUS

Iniquity

abomination, atrocity, bad, breach, crime, crime against humanity, deadly sin, delinquency, dereliction, diablerie, disgrace, enormity, error, evil, failure, fault, felony, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, illegality, improperness, impropriety, indiscretion, inequitableness, inequity, inexpiable sin, infamy, iniquitousness, injury, injustice, knavery, lapse, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, mortal sin, nonfeasance, obliquity, offense, omission, outrage, peccadillo, peccancy, reprobacy, scandal, shame, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, undueness, unjustness, unlawfulness, unmeetness, unutterable sin, venial sin, villainy, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulness, wrongness

ROGET THESAURUS

Iniquity

Wrong

N wrong, what ought not to be, what should not be, malum in se, unreasonableness, grievance, shame, injustice, tort, unfairness, iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning, bias, favor, favoritism, nepotism, party spirit, partisanship, bigotry, undueness, wrongdoing (vice), unlawfulness, robbing Peter to pay Paul, the wolf and the lamb, vice, a custom more honored in the breach than the obser, wrong, wrongful, bad, too bad, unjust, unfair, inequitable, unequitable, unequal, partial, one-sided, injurious, tortious, objectionable, unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable, improper, unfit, unjustified, illegal, iniquitous, immoral, in the wrong, in the wrong box, wrongly, it will not do.

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.