iniquitous
/ɪˈnɪkwɪtəs
/adjective
Grossly unfair and morally wrong: an iniquitous tax these awards remain an iniquitous system...
- The very idea that he would leak stories to her is preposterous, outrageous, possibly blasphemous and undoubtedly iniquitous.
- That vote hobbled him, on Thursday night as throughout this campaign, from crystallizing public unease about this iniquitous and illegal war.
- It is always the story of those upholding higher human virtues locked in battle against the wicked and the iniquitous.
Synonyms
wicked, sinful, evil, immoral, improper;
villainous, criminal, heinous, nefarious;
vile, foul, base, odious, abominable, execrable, atrocious, dreadful, egregious, malicious;
outrageous, monstrous, obscene, intolerable, shocking, scandalous, reprehensible;
unjust, unfair;
Law malfeasant
humorous dastardly
archaic facinorous
dishonourable, unprincipled;
wicked, evil, criminal, lawless;
degenerate, corrupt, reprobate, immoral, dissolute;
devilish, diabolical, fiendish
informal crooked
archaic blackguardly
Derivatives
iniquitously
- Unsurprisingly, this misogynist one-sex model of gender is explicit (women ‘know no moderation in goodness or vice,’ and are iniquitously, and inequitably, ‘more carnal than a man’), and etymologically inauthentic.
- When he came in before the Council, he complained he had been most iniquitously turned out of his charge.
- I have been shamefully expelled, iniquitously turned out of the position of "Founder-Director" to which I had been appointed.
iniquitousness
- The iniquitousness of dying farmed salmon to make it look more palatable on the plate is just one of the charges being leveled at the aquaculture industry by the protesters.
- The show is funny and like other shows of Gervais' design it exposes the absurdity and iniquitousness of everyday life.