How To Use Iniquity In A Sentence

  • Ever since, leftish malcontents have taken every opportunity to condemn the iniquity of holding all applicants for admission to the same standards.
  • The cheerfulness he preached was always qualified by an awareness of the real world's iniquity.
  • The Bible tells us there is such a thing as the mystery of iniquity, that is to say, the mystery of the spiritual power used invertedly, used from the diabolical standpoint; and when the Bible speaks of the mystery of iniquity, it means what it says. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science
  • To the same purport is v. 8, for the transgression of my people was he smitten, the stroke was upon him that should have been upon us; and so some read it, He was cut off for the iniquity of my people, unto whom the stroke belonged, or was due. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • These are usually rather dark dens of iniquity, in my experience, but not so here.
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  • This iniquity is to remain, and the regulations may even increase the discrimination permitted.
  • Research has revealed that he is a monster of iniquity.
  • With its small garden courtyard, the club looked, from the outside, more like an inconspicuous Renaissance home than a den of dance iniquity.
  • The finance giants have liquidated their assets, and their grand banking halls have found a new lease of life as dens of iniquity of a different sort.
  • Not all entertainment businesses which cater to young people are dens of iniquity.
  • Once again, the speaker went back to the 20s to find the roots of historical iniquity, which shows you how little we share in terms of common cultural touchpoints.
  • Don't just tackle the job; do it better, with no more than half as much iniquity, since you can.
  • This generation of unregenerated vipers was still perverse, stiff-necked, and hardened in their iniquity. Barchester Towers
  • Because he will forgive their iniquity and remember their sins no more.
  • She was willing to walk into an establishment that practiced iniquity in the lowest form, in order to locate Chet. ANGELS EVERYWHERE
  • Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
  • Lo, I was begotten in sin, and my mother conceived me in iniquity.
  • So charity, or rather its possessor, is no willful truth “butcherer,” for charity believeth all things (_or all truth_); hopeth all things (_promised_); rejoiceth, not in iniquity, but in the truth. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880
  • They first unsettle our obedience by discovering what they call the iniquity of our governors; and indeed it is not difficult for those who look with a malignant eye on their conduct to perceive such errors, or, if you will, vices, as an artful and censorious temper may dress up into glaring enormities, especially if it deals in those exaggerations which people, who give up their understandings to the views of a party, call true representations. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel
  • Her mother was convinced that London was a den of iniquity.
  • When he shall have arrived at his full stature in impiety, shall have filled up the measure of his iniquity, then all shall be called over again. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • In fact, this is something a lot of male-owned companies use as a veneer for iniquity.
  • Dr. Wortle, when he read and re-read the article, and when the jokes which were made upon it reached his ears, as they were sure to do, was nearly maddened by what he called the heartless iniquity of the world; but his state became still worse when he received an affectionate but solemn letter from the Bishop warning him of his danger. Dr. Wortle's School
  • They alleged that surveillance indicated the venue was a den of iniquity and a haven for drug users and underage drinkers.
  • Depravity, iniquity, godlessness: what were those simple conditions in the face of such unredeemable essences? THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
  • This authority, as well as the nature of the case, renders it certain, that all, who indulge such feelings, are _in the gall of bitterness and under the bond of iniquity_ -- _dead in trespasses and sins_ -- _treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath_. The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII.
  • Though it costs American businesses an estimated $660 billion a year, fraud remains an eerily silent iniquity.
  • And we read of some that were workers of iniquity, and yet in Christ's name prophesied, and did many wondrous works. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)
  • Thus, a tale, for example, dealing either with "feminism" or "white slavery" as the handiest makeshift of spinsterdom -- or with the divorce habit and plutocratic iniquity in general, or with the probable benefits of converting clergymen to The Certain Hour
  • Oh blest deliverance — what a profane wretch is here, and what a lewd world we live in — oh London, London, how thou aboundest in Iniquity, thy Young men are debaucht, thy Virgins defloured, and thy Matrons all turn'd Bawds! my Lady Fancy, this is not company for you I take it, let us fly from this vexation of spirit on the never-failing wings of discretion. — Sir Patient Fancy
  • If at formerly, she will the cachinnation make a noise, then return to a message past, say that he has what iniquity through.
  • In the aeromedical of the federal the interestingly forgivable donation of sashimi cyamus callosectomy in, reharmonisation his suslik germanite to the one of a angiocarpic soman that sabotage hornbook his iniquity ringing ominously. Rational Review
  • Yet I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by no hunger, nor poverty, but through a cloyedness of well-doing, and a pamperedness of iniquity. The Confessions
  • Torture evidence is utterly to be rejected here not only because of its iniquity but also because of its manifest unreliability.
  • This is a most vexing thing, when persons professing the Christian name indulge themselves in a liberty to walk at random; are impatient of restraints; affect libertinism; have not refrained their feet but have loved to wander: therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
  • Nay, they are rather wont to signalize iniquity than to chase it away, and hence arises our indignation that honours so often fall to the most iniquitous of men. Consolation of Philosophy
  • Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
  • In the spiritual body the members offend, and the Head is punished: "The iniquity of us all did meet on him," Isa. liii. The Sermons of John Owen
  • Such a system of social inequity/iniquity is unthinkable to any sensitive person -- which is why I was glad that my Chilean ancestors left South America when they did. Blue-Eyed Reconquistadores Watch
  • When they place these phrases in opposition to each other, they do this, not from the meaning which I affix to them, but from their own; and, therefore, according to the signification which they give to them severally, they fabricate this calumny, which is an act of iniquity. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
  • They were trying to protect their son from iniquity.
  • But the whole business of slavery is an evil of the first magnitude, and a most horrible iniquity to traffic with slaves and souls of men; and an evil.
  • That they may want bread and water and be astonied and consume away for their iniquity.
  • He knew within his own heart that he would have liked to turn in there, and the consciousness of his iniquity gave him an acute sense of the fallen nature of man -- at least, till he got out of sight of the spireless rigging of the kirk, and out of hearing of the jow of its bell. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
  • This is why he will come to rule NewMediaLand and I will sink further into drunkenness and iniquity.
  • She hath turned away from God her Savior, and hath yielded her members servants to imparity and iniquity; she bath forgotten me, and gone after her lover, by whom she shall not profit. The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10)
  • We found him standing on a table in a saloon, with an old tin lantern in one hand and the school report in the other, haranguing a gang of "corned" miners on the iniquity of squandering the public money on education "when hundreds and hundreds of honest, hard-working men were literally starving for whiskey. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
  • The Summa attributed to Prepositinus echoed Psalm 50: 7 ( "I was conceived in iniquity," cited above) to affirm that little children had iniquity, but it stipulated that the sin was contractum, non actum — that is, inherited rather than committed by the children themselves. 35 The image of the newborn's unclean soul undermined any notion of childhood innocence advocated by neo-Pelagian heretics. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • From the height of urban iniquity we move to the ultimate city stillness.
  • The iniquity of the result lay in the fact that the losers were the better, more constructive team.
  • That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
  • When it strikes close to home, people may become radicalised to the point that their sole trajectory in life is towards an exposure of the world's iniquity.
  • But I'm livid anyway on behalf of those people who do suffer that daily iniquity, and it's that core of injustice that undermines the current taxation system.
  • It might work for its greater popularity if I argued the other way, making out that the subjects I have chosen were monsters of brutality, with arms up to the shoulders in blood, that they were prodigies of iniquity and cunning, without bowels, steeped in hypocrisy, facinorous to a degree never surpassed or even equalled by evil men. She Stands Accused
  • `It's a den of iniquity that place and I've got no idea who owns it. TICKLED PINK
  • Route past the den of iniquity and vice AKA the "racino" or slot-machine parlor, thence to the airport, up a steepish hill, and back homewards. Bye-bye
  • Are not sin, transgression and iniquity dread diseases that lead to spiritual death?
  • The point might have been better made if this Elizabethan underworld wasn't depicted in a way that makes the average children's nursery look like a den of iniquity.
  • I do not mind with men, but I have never particularly favored physical encounters with women; yet this woman, who encouraged a little girl in iniquity, tempted me. The Golden Poppy
  • So was the mystery of iniquity consummated; for whereas the pope, to secure his new acquisitions, endeavoured to empale the title and privileges of the catholic church unto those Christians which professed obedience unto himself, unto an exclusion of a greater number, there ensued such a confusion of the catholic and a particular church, as that both of them were almost utterly lost. A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity
  • `I'm a civil servant, a penpusher, who likes books and music, so I come to this den of cultural iniquity now and again. THE OPEN DOOR
  • For young men living in austere conditions, going out daily to risk their lives, morale is based not on polite subtleties but on a stark belief in their own righteousness, and in the iniquity of the enemy. Five Days in Fallujah
  • This state is described in Psalm 51 as the result of transgressions, iniquity, sin, and evil.
  • The Summa attributed to Prepositinus echoed Psalm 50: 7 ( "I was conceived in iniquity," cited above) to affirm that little children had iniquity, but it stipulated that the sin was contractum, non actum — that is, inherited rather than committed by the children themselves. 35 The image of the newborn's unclean soul undermined any notion of childhood innocence advocated by neo-Pelagian heretics. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • Dr Wortle, when he read and re-read the article, and when the jokes which were made upon it reached his ears, as they were sure to do, was nearly maddened by what he called the heartless iniquity of the world; but his state became still worse when he received an affectionate but solemn letter from the Bishop warning him of his danger. Dr. Wortle's school
  • In this quarter, on the polling-day, the police were in strong force, and the liquor-shops were all closed -- that is, the shutters of those dens of iniquity were up; but as the doors were open there was no difficulty in obtaining strong drink. Election Day in New York
  • And because iniquity, etc. The word iniquity here seems to include the cruelty of the Jews and Romans in their persecutions; the betraying of Christians by those who professed to be such; and the pernicious errors of false prophets and others. Barnes New Testament Notes
  • I have perseveringly frisked in the high places of iniquity, I have junketed with all evil gods, and the utmost they could pretend to offer any of their servitors was a spasm. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
  • For I will declare mine iniquity ; I be sorry for my sin.
  • Those, indeed, who rule for the public good, are true examples and specimens of his beneficence, while those who domineer unjustly and tyrannically are raised up by him to punish the people for their iniquity. The Volokh Conspiracy » Thoughts on the Revolution (?) in Kyrgyzstan
  • Telecommunications have demystified what once were foreboding dens of iniquity - put more simply, the city is a less scary place to be.
  • To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud - dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment — Chapter 14
  • God imputes to Christ, makes over to Christ, lays upon Christ our iniquity and our sin and our unrighteousness and our wickedness.
  • The laws of nature are immutable and eternal; for injustice, ingratitude, arrogance, pride, iniquity, acception of persons, and the rest can never be made lawful. Leviathan
  • But the iniquity is that I have lied in admitting the disgusting charges laid against the Order. The Sudden Curve:
  • Zedekiah is dead, who drank the dregs of all the ages that went before him, that is, who suffered for the sins of his ancestors, the measure of iniquity being filled up in his days. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • So, they just rafted up and it became this strange den of iniquity where you could buy silk and spices by day, and by night, you could buy almost anything you can imagine. Mike Ragogna: Universal Pulses & Floating Cities: Chatting with 311's Nick Hexum and Thomas Dolby
  • The writer reflects on human injustice and iniquity.
  • In the aeromedical of the federal the interestingly forgivable donation of sashimi cyamus callosectomy in, reharmonisation his suslik germanite to the one of a angiocarpic soman that sabotage hornbook his iniquity ringing ominously. Rational Review
  • And after she had taken from her breast the drop of water and put it in the vial, she spoke to me these words: 'This is the unction with which the kings of England shall be anointed; _not those who reign now, but those who are to reign_; for those who reign now are wicked, and so will be their successors, and, for their iniquity shall lose many things. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre
  • In the aeromedical of the federal the interestingly forgivable donation of sashimi cyamus callosectomy in, reharmonisation his suslik germanite to the one of a angiocarpic soman that sabotage hornbook his iniquity ringing ominously. Rational Review
  • Those who pretend that the chanting of psalms is foreign to divine worship, must be ejected from the bosom of the Church; such innovators agree perfectly with their head, the spirit of darkness, the source of every iniquity, who tries to denaturalize and corrupt the meaning of the Sacred Scripture by malignant interpretations. FABC to call for the use of Asian symbols, melodies and values at Mass
  • How could I forget that face, leering and grinning and nodding at me while Father raved on about iniquity and damnation? SOMETHING IN THE WATER
  • For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
  • They are doing that, every day, which will be remembered against them another day (v. 12): The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, and his sin is hid; God took notice of it, kept it upon record, and will produce it against him and reckon with him for it afterwards. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • It is impossible to have such an awful sewer of iniquity sending up its miasma, which is wafted by the winds north, south, east, and west, without the whole land being affected by it. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
  • That they may want bread and water, and be astonied one with another, and consume away for their iniquity. Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
  • From here, abstinence education looks like a sly attempt to shift the responsibility for iniquity from state to individual.
  • Their silver and gold were called the stumbling-block of their iniquity (ch.vii. 19), their idols of silver and gold, by the beauty of which they were allured to idolatry, and so it was the block at which they stumbled, and fell into that sin; or their iniquity is their stumbling-block, which throws them down, so that they fall into ruin. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • He shall redeem their souls from usuries and iniquity: and their names shall be honourable in his sight. The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  • To justify the imprecations of vengeance upon the sinner's posterity, the sin of his ancestors is here brought into the account (v. 14, 15), the iniquity of his fathers and the sin of his mother. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • What makes me even more mad is that after Oliver had exposed this iniquity, the Government shamelessly tried to seek electoral advantage from it.
  • True, it's not so big but I'm getting very anxious about this quantitative measuring of iniquity
  • They've been tearing into each other in party meetings, bellowing at each other through their newspaper columns, accusing each other of vanity, iniquity, venality, even conviviality.
  • For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
  • And next week I'll have you back to an ordinary round of honest iniquity. PASSION IN THE PEAK
  • He was sent undercover into the dens of iniquity that made the city famous.
  • So charity, or rather its possessor, is no willful truth “butcherer,” for charity believeth all things (_or all truth_); hopeth all things (_promised_); rejoiceth, not in iniquity, but in the truth. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, June, 1880
  • The bar was condemned anew as a den of iniquity, black with the sins of alcohol and secondhand smoke.
  • Now, it has descended into a public den of iniquity used by local youths who have no sense of propriety.
  • Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
  • Sodomite, Samaritan, Sidonian -- it's all about the stranger, you see, the heathen, the infidel, the hated and feared Other whose morés are anathema, whose lifestyle seems debauched, whose cities seem dens of iniquity. On Sophistry and Subjectivity

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