iniquitously
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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“The iniquitously expensive and secretive British secondary school my sister and I attended. My father thought we were too young to be sent abroad, but he was determined that we be as European as possible.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Judges iniquitously held that to amount to a conviction of felony.
From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)
I say, then, every King shall rejoice that the most false and most injurious opinion of the wicked and deceitful men who have up to this time spoken iniquitously of Nobility is confuted.
From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Sayer, Elizabeth Price
Now, it is not possible to do the direct opposite of that,—to take pleasure iniquitously or obliquely—χαιρειν αδικως or σκολιως,—more than you do in enjoying a thing because your neighbor cannot get it.
From Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 by Ruskin, John
The Shokas have to pay this tribute, and do so out of fear—in addition to other taxes and trade dues iniquitously exacted by the Tibetans.
From In the Forbidden Land by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage
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