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misdemeanor

Main Entry:
misdemeanor [mis-di-mee-ner]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: criminal offense
Synonyms: criminality, offense, transgression, violation
Notes: crime is from Latin crimen 'judgment, accusation, offense' and a crime is an act in violation of a law; a misdemeanor is a less serious crime while a felony is a major crime
Main Entry: crime
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: offense against the law
Synonyms: abomination, antisocial behavior, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, criminality, delict, delictum, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, evil behavior, fast one, fault, felony, hit, illegality, immorality, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, tort, transgression, trespass, unlawful act, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing
Notes: crime is from Latin crimen 'judgment, accusation, offense' and a crime is an act in violation of a law; a misdemeanor is a less serious crime while a felony is a major crime
Antonyms: good deed, kindness
Main Entry: delinquency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misconduct
Synonyms: crime, default, dereliction, failure, fault, lapse, misbehavior, misdeed, misdemeanor, neglect, nonfeasance, nonobservance, offense, oversight, weakness, wrongdoing
Antonyms: good behavior
Main Entry: fault
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blame, sin; mistake
Synonyms: accountability, answerability, blunder, crime, culpability, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, evil doing, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, loss of innocence, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, peccancy, responsibility, slip, slip-up, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing
Antonyms: advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection
Main Entry: misbehavior
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: naughty act, conduct
Synonyms: acting up, fault, immorality, impropriety, incivility, indiscipline, insubordination, mischief, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, monkey business, naughtiness, rudeness, shenanigans*, transgression, wrongdoing
Antonyms: behavior, good conduct, manners, obedience
Main Entry: misconduct
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bad or unethical behavior
Synonyms: delinquency, dereliction, evil, immorality, impropriety, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misbehavior, mischief, misdemeanor, misdoing, mismanagement, naughtiness, offense, rudeness, transgression, wrongdoing
Antonyms: behavior, manners, obedience
Main Entry: offense
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: violation, trespass
Synonyms: breach, crime, delinquency, fault, infraction, lapse, malfeasance, misdeed, misdemeanor, peccadillo, sin, transgression, wrong, wrongdoing
Antonyms: obedience
Main Entry: peccadillo
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: small fault
Synonyms: bad habit, faux pas, impropriety, indiscretion, minor fault, minor infraction, minor sin, misdemeanor, petty offense, slight transgression, small infraction, small sin, venial sin, vice
Main Entry: transgression
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: violation, misbehavior
Synonyms: breach, breaking of the law, contravention, crime, defiance, disobedience, encroachment, erring, error, fault, infraction, infringement, iniquity, lapse, misdeed, misdemeanor, offense, overstepping, sin, slip, trespass, vice, wrong, wrongdoing
Antonyms: behavior, good manners, obedience, right
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