| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crime |
| 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*, immorality, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, offense, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, tort, transgression, trespass, unlawful act, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | nonfeasance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | failure |
| Synonyms: | abortion, bankruptcy, bomb*, botch, breakdown, bungle, bust, checkmate, collapse, decay, decline, default, defeat, deficiency, deficit, delinquency, dereliction, deterioration, downfall, failing, false step, faux pas, fiasco, flash in the pan, flop, frustration, implosion, inadequacy, lead balloon, lemon, loser, loss, mess*, misadventure, miscarriage, misstep, neglect, nonperformance, nonsuccess, omission, overthrow, rout, rupture, sinking ship, stalemate, stoppage, total loss, turkey, washout, wreck |
| Main Entry: | peccancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crime |
| Synonyms: | abomination, antisocial behavior, atrocity, breach, break*, caper, case, corruption, criminality, delict, delictum, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, deviltry, diablerie, enormity, evil, evil behavior, evildoing, fast one, fault, felony, hit*, illegality, immorality, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, offense, outrage, racket, scandal, sin, sneak, tort, transgression, trespass, unlawful act, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | recreance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defection |
| Synonyms: | alienation, apostasy, backsliding, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, disownment, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, forsaking, lack, parting, rebellion, recreancy, rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, separation, severance, sundering, tergiversation, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | recreancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defection |
| Synonyms: | alienation, apostasy, backsliding, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, disownment, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, forsaking, lack, parting, rebellion, recreance, rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, separation, severance, sundering, tergiversation, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | tergiversation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defection |
| Synonyms: | alienation, apostasy, backsliding, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, disownment, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, forsaking, lack, parting, rebellion, recreance, recreancy, rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, separation, severance, sundering, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | deficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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anaphrodisiac, anaphroditious, at a low ebb, at the end of one's tether, bare, crude, defective, deficient, denuded of, destitute of, devoid of, docked, drained, dry, empty, empty-handed, extravasated, failing, famine-stricken, famished, garbled, going on, half-and-half, half-starved, hollow, hungry, ill-furnished, ill-off, ill-provided, ill-stored, imperfect, in arrear, in debt, in default, in hand, in progress, in want, inadequate, incompetent, incomplete, insufficient, jejune, lame, lopped, manqué, meager, mutilated, not enough, not to be had, not to be had at any price, not to be had for love or money, out of, perfunctory, poor, proceeding, scant, scarce, scrimp, scurvy, short, short of, sketchy, slack, spare, sparing, starved, starveling, stingy, stinted, thin, too little, truncated, uncompleted, unequal to, unfed, unfinished, unfulfilled, unfurnished, unprovided, unreplenished, unstored, unsupplied, untreasured, vacant, wanting, weighed in the balances and found wanting, without resources
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| Main Entry: | disobedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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contumacious, disobedient, factious, froward, impatient of control, insubordinate, insurgent, iscariotic, lawless, mutinous, proditorious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, resisting, restiff, restive, riotous, seditious, sequacious, unbidden, uncompliant, uncomplying, ungovernable, unobeyed, unruly, unsubmissive, untoward
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| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abandoned, accursed, adulterine, apostate, atrocious, bad, base, black, blameworthy, censurable, compunctious, condemned, corrupt, criminal, criminogenic, culpable, deep in iniquity, degrading, demoniacal, demoralized, demoralizing, depraved, desertless, diabolic, diabolical, discreditable, disgraceful, disorderly, disreputable, dissolute, doli incapax, dolose, evil-disposed, evil-minded, exceptionable, facinorous, false, fedifragous, felonious, fiendlike, flagitious, flagrant, foul, frail, graceless, grave, gross, guilt-sick, guilty, heartless, heinous, hell-born, hellish, hit-and-run, hot, ill-conditioned, illaudable, illegal, immoral, imperfect, improper, in fault, in the wrong, in the wrong box, incarnate, incorrect, incorrigible, indecorous, indefensible, indiscreet, inequitable, inexcusable, inexpiable, infamous, infernal, infirm, iniquitous, irreclaimable, irremissible, lawless, lax, lost in iniquity, lost to virtue, mala fide, malevolent, mephistophelian, misbegotten, miscreated, mutinous, naughty, nefarious, nefast, obdurate, objectionable, of a deep dye, one-sided, partial, past praying for, peccable, peccaminous, penal, perfidious, piacular, poison-pen, profligate, recidivous, recreant, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scampish, scandalous, scurvy, seditious, shameful, sinful, sinister, sinning, steeped in iniquity, stygian, sunk in iniquity, supercilious, thelyphthoric, to blame, too bad, transgressive, treacherous, unallowable, uncommendable, unconscionable, unduteous, undutiful, unequal, unequitable, unfair, unfit, unjust, unjustifiable, unjustified, unpardonable, unprincipled, unrighteous, unseemly, unwarrantable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, virtueless, weak, wee-wow, weighed in the balance and found wanting, wicked, wired, worthless, wrong, wrongful
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