iniquity

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Gross immorality or injustice; wickedness.

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A grossly immoral act; a sin.

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Lack of equity; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness: as, the iniquity of the slave-trade.

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A violation of right or duty; an unjust or wicked action; a wilful wrong or crime.

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In Scots law, inequity; a judicial act or decision contrary to law or equity.

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[capitalized] A comic character or buffoon in the medieval English moralities or moral plays, often otherwise called the Vice, and sometimes by the name of the particular vice he represented.

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Synonyms and Sin, Transgression, etc. See crime.

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Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; lack of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness

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An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice or unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.

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A character or personification in the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice and sometimes of another. See Vice.