Idiom
sink of iniquity
Meaning
A place where criminal activity is rife; a resort of criminals.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The old tavern was a sink of iniquity.”
“The police refused to patrol that part of the city, calling the entire district a sink of iniquity.”
“The traveler warned that the remote port city had become a sink of iniquity, where corruption and vice flourished unchecked in the shadows.”
Examples
simple
“The old tavern was a sink of iniquity.”
contextual
“The police refused to patrol that part of the city, calling the entire district a sink of iniquity.”
complex
“The traveler warned that the remote port city had become a sink of iniquity, where corruption and vice flourished unchecked in the shadows.”
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