What's the difference between immorality and iniquity?

Immorality


Definition:

  • (n.) The state or quality of being immoral; vice.
  • (n.) An immoral act or practice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s immoral.” On Twitter, Harris has occasionally mentioned his background when debating these matters.
  • (2) It is socially very divisive, it is stigmatising, it is subtly slanderous and it is immoral.
  • (3) The public would consider such schemes "completely and utterly and totally immoral" and those involved in devising and marketing them were "running rings around" tax officials, she said.
  • (4) Whatever the dogma, opposition to it is not just wrong, it is immoral.
  • (5) Fishing news Barcelona chairman Sandro Rosell says Arsenal were "immoral" to poach their youth player Jon Toral: "We don't like it that clubs come in with offers of money just before boys turn 16.
  • (6) People who campaigned against controls were conducting an immoral campaign.
  • (7) There is a huge disconnect between the Wonga management's view of these services and the view from beyond its headquarters, where campaigners against the rapidly growing payday loan industry describe them as " immoral and unjust " and " legal loan sharks ".
  • (8) It’s not illegal and it’s not immoral, but it’s probably best that we don’t talk about it at parents’ evening.’ Even at seven, she asked ‘But why is that a bad thing?’ And I said, ‘Well it’s not, but not everybody sees it that way.’” They moved to a new home, where both her neighbours and the school have been supportive and protective of her.
  • (9) Prominent physicians have recently stated that it is not immoral for a physician to assist in the rational suicide of a terminally ill patient.
  • (10) If you are a whistleblower like Edward Snowden, who tells the press about illegal, immoral or embarrassing government actions, you will face jail time.
  • (11) That, said the court today, "would make the whole trial not only immoral and illegal, but also entirely unreliable in its outcome".
  • (12) In the US, activists including the American Civil Liberties Union argue that it is immoral to claim ownership of humanity's shared genetic heritage.
  • (13) "Attempts to stop people communicating are in principle counter-productive and even immoral.
  • (14) Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, said Mandela was a "great man" who had made racism "not just immoral but stupid".
  • (15) The means test would have applied to cancer patients and stroke survivors, and was denounced by Lord Patel, a crossbencher and former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians, as an immoral attack on the sick, the vulnerable and the poor.
  • (16) One is that Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire in the early 19th century, denuded the Parthenon of much of its sculpture immorally, or even illicitly.
  • (17) He added: "These statistics show keeping aid promises is worth the world – and that breaking them should be deemed immoral."
  • (18) Profumo's confession and the Ward trial broke open the shell of the old establishment, exposing its immorality and incompetence.
  • (19) She felt the modern western world dealt badly with death – "the idea that mortality is a failure" – and that to waste time or use it without pleasure was "almost immoral".
  • (20) Walter wanders deeper into a world of which he previously knew nothing, deeper into immorality, but as the viewer you are always able to understand why he's doing it.

Iniquity


Definition:

  • (n.) Absence of, or deviation from, just dealing; want of rectitude or uprightness; gross injustice; unrighteousness; wickedness; as, the iniquity of bribery; the iniquity of an unjust judge.
  • (n.) An iniquitous act or thing; a deed of injustice o/ unrighteousness; a sin; a crime.
  • (n.) 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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their actions suggested that while Brown was busy unilaterally absolving the inequities of our colonial past, the Iraqis are still dealing with the iniquities of our colonial present.
  • (2) He treats me to a 10-minute critique of global capitalism and inbuilt obsolescence and the iniquity of global labour markets.
  • (3) David L Williams London • Trying to fix backroom deals to ameliorate the iniquities of first past the post will be counterproductive and distract attention from the elephant in the room.
  • (4) But yesterday, Pike's father Nigel was cautious about the news: "The iniquity of Will's and others' situation was that the terrorism occurred abroad and different countries have wildly differing levels of compensation.
  • (5) This would enable the mayor to adjust the current caps and remove the worst iniquities which he spoke out against during his campaign."
  • (6) Nothing in this book takes away from the iniquity and brutality of the crime or the culpability of his murderers, but we owe Matthew and other young men like him the truth.
  • (7) Then, in 1963, he returned to America for another competition given in the name of Dimitri Mitropoulos; this time, he later declared, he conducted badly, the award of (joint) first prize was wrong and the whole experience revealed the iniquities of the competition system.
  • (8) Though Mitrokhin never had any thought of aligning himself openly with the human rights movement, the example of the Chronicle Of Current Events, and other samizdat productions, helped to inspire him with the idea of producing a classified variant of the dissidents' attempts to document the iniquities of the Soviet system.
  • (9) Seen as “dens of iniquity and immorality”, portals of decadence, they are an easy sell as a target to impressionable young extremist by more senior militants.
  • (10) He joined forces with the radical elements within Solidarity, who had long resented the conciliatory approach of Wałęsa’s liberal advisers, and fanned the flames of public fury at the iniquities of the transition.
  • (11) As the Guardian’s film editor, Catherine Shoard, noted in Toronto , Lone Scherfig’s film glamorises the iniquity it purports to condemn.
  • (12) But Murphy was one of the co-founders of the Tax Justice Network, the campaigning organisation that has been at the forefront of the battle to bring the iniquities of tax havens into the spotlight.
  • (13) To some extent he was right, of course, and if he had been making a general critique of the iniquities of global football finance, he might even have come across as statesmanlike, but his point was limited to Guardiola and his personal antipathy.
  • (14) But what an enchantment to be proved wrong, and by none other than Chris's erstwhile leader Nick Clegg, who this week offered his own view of the iniquities of politicians being held to account.
  • (15) For the Israeli state and the collective of often unlikely bedfellows who support it so unquestioningly throughout the world to pursue and support the inhumane treatment of the Palestinian people – forced so brutally off their land in 1948 and still under attack today – to be so blind to the idea that injustice is injustice, regardless not just on whom it is visited, but by whom as well, is one of the defining iniquities of our age, and powerfully implies a shamingly low upper limit on the extent of our species' moral intelligence.
  • (16) It looked as if Hiddink's run of failure against English teams at club and international level would reach 10 games without a win but England supporters had forgotten about John Terry's absence and the alleged iniquity of an artificial pitch, absorbed instead by the efficiency of their side.
  • (17) If anything displayed the iniquity of the apartheid regime it was his continued incarceration.
  • (18) But perhaps the audiences he speaks to with the most practical knowledge of the iniquities of drug legislations are the prisoners he visits in institutions across America.
  • (19) In Iran, in 1979, the Islamists seized power, hurling now familiar slogans against the west, Israel, decadence and social iniquity In fact, the idea that a modern state should be run according to a particular interpretation of Muslim teachings was far from as authentically local as its proponents claimed.
  • (20) For, to someone in Mrs Bennet's modest social and economic position, getting that many daughters married off would indeed have been a serious business – especially considering the institutionalised iniquity of a family inheritance entailed away from the female line of succession.