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dereliction

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illegality [il-ee-gal-i-tee]
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
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Main Entry: deficiency
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
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
Main Entry: disobedience
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
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
Main Entry: guilt
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
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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