iniquities

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Editorial note

The iniquities have been discussed repeatedly in popular press, with almost no changes wrought in the process.

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Quick take

(uncountable) Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of iniquities gathered in one view.

noun

(uncountable) Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness.

noun

(countable) An act of great injustice or unfairness; a sinful or wicked act; an unconscionable deed.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for iniquities.

noun

(uncountable) Deviation from what is right; gross injustice, sin, wickedness.

noun

(countable) An act of great injustice or unfairness; a sinful or wicked act; an unconscionable deed.

Example sentences

The iniquities have been discussed repeatedly in popular press, with almost no changes wrought in the process.

There are innumerable ways to avert the worst iniquities of private equity without going Full Communist Revolution.

In spite of such iniquities, there seem to be no political efforts to fix the system.

Whatever aberrations or iniquities arise from this are simply denied by yet more cognitive dissonance.

Odd to say that of a sad observation of life's iniquities, but it's a good article I think.

Being aware of historical iniquities and looking for places where you are continuing them.

Being perplexed/disgusted by the iniquities of the younger generation has been going on for a long time and will in all likelihood continue.

Rather than just tangling with iniquities, trying to vault to a higher level.

Picking winners and losers might seem like a good idea until you realize this very act creates more losers, even if successfully reducing iniquities.

We are dehumanized, treated to precisely those iniquities that we've fought hard against for so long.

There are various ways in which such iniquities might be addressed.

Are there problems and iniquities that need to be addressed?

Quote examples

All the emotionally charged language you used (like "iniquities") belies this claim.

As a “white male programmer”, I’ve always been uncomfortable with an imbalanced group; now, being in a relationship with a female programmer, I’m exposed to a lot more of the actual iniquities.

> Being perplexed/disgusted by the iniquities of the younger generation has been going on for a long time Well, sure, but there's a difference between the normal run-of-the-mill "kids think they invented sex"-type bitching and this naming-of-the-generations claptrap.

And even the development of the internal combustion engine automobile by Benz [3] was quite explicitly motivated by his obsession to make it reliable and practical enough to fully supersede horse carriages and liberate cities from the iniquities of manure, which at the time was as "big scale thinking" as it gets.