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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This new state included Milan, Modena, some of the papal dominions, and, lastly, a part of the possessions of the venerable and renowned but defenseless republic of Venice which Napoleon had iniquitously destroyed.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey
His grants were from the aggregate and consolidated funds of judgments iniquitously legal, and from possessions voluntarily surrendered by the lawful proprietors with the gibbet at their door.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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 neighbour cannot get it.
From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John
Did I not, were I iniquitously disposed, as her bishop was, hold her body also?
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by Hogan, William
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