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
All his anger and ill-will were against the duke, whom he accused of having iniquitously abused the confidence of his father-in-law to arouse in poor Cecilia feelings that had hitherto lain dormant.
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
She felt as if somehow she had done it; as if her innermost secret self, iniquitously exacting, had thrown down the gage into the arena and that he had picked it up.
From The Three Sisters by May Sinclair
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 Arnold Henry Savage Landor
Thus André ascended the throne, and then returned the soldiers of the khan laden with the booty which they had so cruelly and iniquitously obtained.
From The Empire of Russia by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
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