(a.) Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ed Balls made similar noises in Sunday's Sun, and voiced pointed opposition in the Commons on Monday – though his focus was almost exclusively on people in work, which threatens to leave arguably the bill's most iniquitous elements outside the debate.
(2) I still believe that the diversion of ever wider tracts of arable land from feeding people to feeding livestock is iniquitous and grotesque.
(3) Abusing the desire of the Greeks, the Irish and others to be part of Europe – and their fear of being forced out of the euro – to impose iniquitous conditions on them is the very opposite of the solidarity on which the European project is meant to be based.
(4) And only 30.1% believe the coalition's proposed changes to the NHS pension scheme to be so iniquitous that they should be rejected altogether.
(5) These cosseted beneficiaries of an iniquitous order are also quick to ostracise the stray dissenter among them, as the case of Greece reveals.
(6) Bryant said: "Would it not be iniquitous if, on top of being socially engineered and sociologically cleansed out of London, the poor were also disenfranchised by your bill?
(7) In other words, the old aspirational tagline of the national lottery now applies to some of the most iniquitous aspects of the benefits system.
(8) Sunderland’s comprised two sentences from its chief executive, ending, “I do not feel the matter warrants further discussion.” It is this smug, lamentable, iniquitous English industry that has the world enthralled.
(9) Peace to the whole world, torn apart by violence linked to drug trafficking and by the iniquitous exploitation of natural resources".
(10) Modern uses of copyrighted material are more varied than we could ever legislate for, and some people are getting away with iniquitous business models while others are unfairly penalised for having great ideas that threaten established business models .
(11) Many women feel this is iniquitous, arguing that it is an abuse of power by men.
(12) The true colours of the Fifa World Cup were revealed in South Africa when the ITV summariser Robbie Earle's complimentary tickets wound up in the hands of some girls plugging a Dutch beer, and the pundit was sent home for enabling this iniquitous trespass on Budweiser's sacred turf.
Perverse
Definition:
(a.) Turned aside; hence, specifically, turned away from the right; willfully erring; wicked; perverted.
(a.) Obstinate in the wrong; stubborn; intractable; hence, wayward; vexing; contrary.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
(2) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
(3) That, though, is a perverse way of looking at things.
(4) chocolatiers, I very much enjoy your chocolates but am forced to eat them blindfold because of your perverse decision to cast them into the shapes of seafood.
(5) It was a riveting and perverse study of decadent Parisian student life, the first of his many films in which Chabrol presents an opposition between a Dionysian character (often called Paul or Popaul) and an Apollonian one (often called Charles), the defender of the status quo.
(6) It is difficult for me to resist a slight sense of envy for those anxiously awaiting A-level results this morning, although this may seem perverse.
(7) (Although traffic noise, perversely, might help it.)
(8) Perversity--the "recruitment of love at the service of aggression"--as a threat to the basic fabric of a couple's love life is one alternative to the normal channels for elaboration of aggression in their relationship.
(9) The killing of badgers to somehow “save” dairy and beef cows is perverse.
(10) Hall blamed the "perverse incentives" created by the government's targets as the cause of the rush of multiple entries.
(11) There is a perverse irony that people who have cracked their iPhones are now being targeted by hackers.
(12) The prednisolone test conducted for evaluation of bone-marrow pool of neutrophils has revealed perversed leucocytic reaction in 39.6% of patients.
(13) Relating the aggressive instinct to narcissism and the sexual instinct to perversion, two modes of functioning are presented which have some points in common and some diverging but which show the dynamics involved in physical and sexual abuse.
(14) We can survive this.” The bloodletting had names: two gunmen who came here to execute these “hundreds of idolatrous sinners” attending a “festival of perversion”, as Isis repulsively brands young fans of rock’n’roll.
(15) Social and cultural aspects, a) habits and traditions, b) religious believes, c) tabues, d) nutrition faddism, e) prejudice, aversions and perversions, f) social value of foods, g) industrialized foods.
(16) Soubry compared nicotine to heroin as she spoke of how she found it difficult to give up smoking because nicotine is a "dreadful substance" that creates a "perverse psychology of smoking".
(17) And then, instead of destroying the text, he perversely deposited the manuscript in a Swiss bank vault in the custody of his wife and son.
(18) In a perverse way, it’s a backhanded compliment to what is after all a young coach (he’ll turn 41 at the end of the month) that Kreis, at RSL, gets treated as part of the MLS furniture.
(19) The government's crusade to embed "British values" in our education system is meaningless at best, dangerous at worst, and a perversion of British history in any case.
(20) It is typical of the perverse misalliance that it contains a refusal to participate, with all the attendant disinterest and deadness and lack of creativity usually associated with that condition.