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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | payoff for fraud |
| Synonyms: | bribe, corruption, gain, hat*, hush money, juice*, money, money under the table, pay, payola, peculation, shake*, share, skimming, squeeze*, thievery |
| Notes: | a graft is one thing attached to another by insertion or implantation so it becomes part of it; a splice is the joining of two things end-to-end to make a new whole |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contamination |
| Synonyms: | bug*, communicability, contagion, contagiousness, corruption, defilement, disease, epidemic, flu, germs, impurity, insanitation, poison, pollution, septicity, virus, what's going around |
| Antonyms: | sanitation, sterility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse; wrong application |
| Synonyms: | abusage, barbarism, catachresis, corruption, cruel treatment, desecration, dissipation, exploitation, harm, ill-treatment, injury, malapropism, maltreatment, misapplication, misemployment, mistreatment, misusage, perversion, profanation, prostitution, rough handling, solecism, squandering, waste |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Main Entry: | perversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual abnormality |
| Synonyms: | aberration, anomaly, corruption, debauchery, deviance, fetish, immorality, kink, kinkiness, sexual deviation |
| Main Entry: | poison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | substance that causes harm, death |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, bacteria, bane, blight, cancer, contagion, contamination, corruption, germ, infection, malignancy, miasma, toxicant, toxin, toxoid, venin, venom, virus |
| Antonyms: | antidote |
| Main Entry: | pollution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirtiness, contamination |
| Synonyms: | abuse, adulteration, besmearing, besmirching, blight, corruption, decomposition, defilement, desecration, deterioration, dirtying, fouling, foulness, greenhouse effect, impairment, impurity, infection, misuse, polluting, profanation, rottenness, soiling, spoliation, taint, tainting, uncleanness, vitiation |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purification |
| Main Entry: | racket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal activity |
| Synonyms: | cheating, con game, confidence game, conspiracy, corruption, crime, dirty pool, dishonesty, dodge, extortion, fraud, game, graft, illegality, illicit scheme, intrigue, lawlessness, lay, plot, push, scheme, shakedown, squeeze*, swindle, swindling, theft, trick, underworld |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corrosion |
| Synonyms: | blight, corruption, decay, decomposition, dilapidation, mold, oxidation, rot, wear |
| Main Entry: | treachery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disloyalty, dishonesty |
| Synonyms: | betrayal, bunco, corruption, dirty dealing, dirty pool, dirty trick, dirty work, disaffection, dodge, double-cross, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, fake, falseness, fast shuffle, flimflam, grift, gyp, infidelity, perfidiousness, perfidy, put-on, racket, recreancy, scam*, sellout, shell game, skin game, spoof, stab in the back, sweet talk, treacherousness, treason, two-timing, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | constancy, devotion, faithfulness, fidelity, honesty, love, loyalty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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