43 adjectives to describe iniquity

Distress everywhere makes the laborer mutinous and discontented, and inclines him to listen with eagerness to agitators who tell him that it is a monstrous iniquity that one man should have a million, while another cannot get a full meal.

Anxious to catch the last words from that tongue, to the utterances of which they had always listened with intense delight, his followers were bending over him, when, collecting his powers for one last effort, he said, in an indignant tone, "I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and, therefore, I die in exile.

All their hoary political iniquities had not deprived them of that dignity.

" "Perhaps all that I have now offered may be of very little weight to restrain this enormity, this aggravated iniquity.

"He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them.

The judge, who was a shrewd fellow, winked at the manifest iniquity of the decision: and, when the court was dismissed, went privily, and bought up all the pigs that could be had for love or money.

And all the plagues that damned furies feele For their forepassed bold iniquities, Afflict you both for thus preventing me!

Beware, my son, of the doctrine of equal rightsa bottomless iniquity.

What are States and all the elaborate systems of political machinery, and the rule of force, whether in home or in foreign affairs,what are they but barriers against the boundless iniquity of mankind?

" We may take Hobbes as the philosopher of the extreme idea of the State and the consequent iniquity of rebellion.

How or when this malady commenced, I shall not further inquire; but from these beginnings, this accumulation of vices, all her calamities and miseries have been brought upon the Church; hence such frequent acts of simony, complaints, fraud, impostures from this one fountain spring all its conspicuous iniquities.

While he framed moral precepts which we are besought to substitute for the Sermon on the Mount, he was openly accused of constant and shameless iniquity, and was leading his distinguished and tender pupil, Nero, into those practises and preparing him for those atrocities which Seneca himself had upon his own soul while he wrote his book on clemency.

That we are impure and polluted with sin and daily iniquity.

But in spite of their relative smallness, they are animated by the same destructive iniquity as the others.

"I am the victim, sir, of editorial iniquity, and typographical abomination!" "Anan?" said Verty.

Idleness especially was held up before her, from the outset, as the most destructive evil and dire iniquity of which human creature was capable; and Old Briton, lounging about all day with his pipe in his mouth,by no means a rare spectacle,did not interfere with the lesson the child's mother enforced.

But, possibly from the fact that in those days human slavery in our country summed up all villainies and crimes, and in the war against that he threw all his surplus energy, he never took part in the crusade then beginning against the more familiar iniquities nearer home.

Common report credited her with being dangerously pretty, scandalously unwise, eminently virtuous, distractingly adventurous in the search for pleasure, charmingly unscrupulous in her treatment of men's hearts, but withal, sufficiently clever to dodge the consequences of her widespread though gentle iniquities.

And why so much gratuitous and superfluous iniquity in his works?

But do you not know that you sent 40,000 men to perish on the bleak heights of the Crimea, and that the revolt in India, caused, in part at least, by the grievous iniquity of the seizure of Oude, may tax your country to the extent of 100,000 lives before it is extinguished; and do you know that for the 140,000 men thus drafted off and consigned to premature graves, nature provided in your country 140,000 women?

I perceive that the devil is far more subtle than you, messire, and leads you, like a pig with a ring in his nose, toward gross iniquity.

Lord Brougham had commented on it in the House of Lords, and Lord Chief Justice Denham had characterized it "in the name of all the judges of England" as a "horrible iniquity."

There an aged seafaring person, temporarily stranded, mulcted the Professor of a dollaran undertaking that required no artand in the course of his recital touched upon yonder little cesspool of infernal iniquities.

Such intrenched and ingrained iniquities as now infest our society will not be overcome without conflict.

A friendly reviewer replies to this, that the apathy of the early Christians to the intrinsic iniquity of the slave system rose out of "their expectation of an immediate close of this world's affairs.

43 adjectives to describe  iniquity