It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me-to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have. From LearnThat.org. [Abigail Adams (1744-1818), U.S. matriarch.]
The shameful monopoly of all commerce by the Merchant Company; the iniquitous sale of spirits by the. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Warrant A Story of Old and New France] Reference
Out of the 110,000 Chinamen in America hardly ten per cent obeyed the iniquitous law and registered. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
It is not within the scope of this book to go into the details of this iniquitous plot, for plot it was. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
It is the gratification by unlawful means of this appetite which renders it so corrupting and iniquitous. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
"The sooner we get rid of that iniquitous bill, the better," says a top National Rifle Association official. From Wordnik.com. [Pulling The Trigger On Guns] Reference
'Kill me, if you please; my life is in your power; but never will I subscribe to that iniquitous formulary.'. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The iniquitous injustice and cruelty of it all made her sick and sorry for men, and reluctant to believe it. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
It may, in a given instance, be wrong to create wealth; existing forms of its distribution may be iniquitous. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Africa, to America and the West Indies; but the English nation had not yet engaged in the iniquitous traffic. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
To these conservative mullahs on the Hill, the idea was an iniquitous expansion of the federal payroll and power. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Political Shootout At The White House] Reference
I refer to the iniquitous manner in which opium was introduced into the country and subsequently sold to the natives. From Wordnik.com. [As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century] Reference
He complains of the means used to bring him into such grievous and deplorable circumstances, as unfair and iniquitous. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
I stand by every provision of this bill, drawn as it is from that most iniquitous fountain, the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Compelled to admit the conclusions already stated, let us not do injustice even to the men who are prominent in this iniquitous rebellion. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Richard Allein, Whitaker, and other practitioners of the law, over whom he tyrannized, charged him with many base and iniquitous practices. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
The old iniquitous land system has been abolished; and in its place one substituted similar to what I have mentioned in this work as being the scheme of Dr. Lang. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
But it was geese, you know, who once saved the Capitol; and I must have my hiss at the iniquitous quackeries which people seek to perpetrate under the taking title of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Very well; he would clean up the town for her as she had looked to him to do, sweep it clear of the last iniquitous gun-slinger, the last slinking gambler, the last drab. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
It is equally iniquitous for a sovereign to barter away the birthright of his subjects as for any foreign power to require it, but how much more so when that power is an ally!. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
iniquitous deeds. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Having failed in a design, which the word iniquitous is scarcely sufficient to characterise, the House of Assembly decidedly assumed a progressive or reform character. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
I'm sorry if I sound preachy or scolding, but reading about Reid's perfidy - and that's not too strong a word, nor is "iniquitous" - really set something set me off, today. From Wordnik.com. [The Anchoress] Reference
The present "iniquitous" situation could not continue. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
No one else's use of the word "iniquitous" would make me laugh so hard. From Wordnik.com. [Polls: Obama Beating Hillary In Indiana And North Carolina] Reference
The South African Legion on Thursday slammed the budget for its failure to address what it described as the "iniquitous" R18 a month allowance paid to war veterans. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Mark Dowling on Oct 14, 2008 @ 05: 45 PM bah - should read "iniquitous". From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
It wants the "iniquitous" price system changed so cheaper units come first. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
It is 'iniquitous' to him that 'you can't make allegations about people because they will respond by going to law', Greenslade said. From Wordnik.com. [News from Journalism.co.uk] Reference
The Pope's face hardened when he read the iniquitous letter. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
The most iniquitous feature of the economic status of the native South. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
This iniquitous and anti-christian enactment has been carried into effect in several instances. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
He stood face to face with the iniquitous superstition, and to their teeth defied its worshipers. From Wordnik.com. [Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis] Reference
I have heard of a case where a reforming spirit determined not to submit to such an iniquitous tax. From Wordnik.com. [Life and sport in China Second Edition] Reference
Morar, where he thought himself secure from his enemies; but it was decreed that his iniquitous life should not close in peaceful obscurity. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
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