# sink of iniquity

idiom

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Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

A place where criminal activity is rife; a resort of criminals.

## 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.

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