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
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 Elizabeth Price Sayer
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
The reign of Edward IV. had seen the pointed toes as iniquitously long as ever the 14th century saw them.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" by Various
Society will demand that wealth should not thus be iniquitously squandered in pursuit of vice and selfish gratifications.
From Crying for the Light, Vol. 2 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie
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