den of iniquity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place of immoral behavior, often of a sexual type.
    — The young men made their preparations with alacrity, and, headed by this western patriarch, we proceeded at a rapid gait to surprize the tenants of this den of iniquity.

词形变化

dens of iniquity plural

词源

Unclear, but probably inspired by the “den of thieves” in the KJV Bible, which is a calque of Latin spēlunca latrōnum.
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