Nearby Words
evildoing
[ee-vuhl-doo-er, ee-vuhl-doo-er] 
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evildoing
[ee-vuhl-doo-er, ee-vuhl-doo-er]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | transgression |
| Synonyms: | corruption, crime, deviltry, evil, evilness, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, nefariousness, peccancy, peccantness, sin, sinfulness, villainy, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atrocity, evil |
| Synonyms: | abuse, affront, barbarism, damage, desecration, enormity, evildoing, harm, hurt, indignity, inhumanity, injury, insult, mischief, misdoing, offense, profanation, rape, rapine, ravishing, ruin, shock, violation, violence, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | delight, happiness |
| Main Entry: | sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, evil-doing, fault, gluttony, guilt, immorality, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, pride, shortcoming, sinfulness, sloth, tort, transgression, trespass, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongness |
| Antonyms: | behavior, goodness, morality |
| Main Entry: | trespass |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | invasion, offense |
| Synonyms: | breach, contravention, crime, delinquency, encroachment, entrenchment, error, evildoing, fault, infraction, infringement, iniquity, injury, intrusion, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, obtrusion, poaching, sin, transgression, unlawful entry, violation, wrongdoing, wrongful entry |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
| Main Entry: | vice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad habit; sin |
| Synonyms: | carnality, corruption, debasement, debauchery, decay, degeneracy, depravity, evil, evildoing, ill, immorality, indecency, iniquity, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, lust, maleficence, malignance, offense, perversion, profligacy, rot, sensuality, squalor, transgression, trespass, venality, wickedness, wrong |
| Antonyms: | good point, propriety, virtue |
| Main Entry: | wickedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sinfulness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, depravity, evil, evildoing, immorality |
| Main Entry: | deviltry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mischief |
| Synonyms: | black magic, cruelty, devilishment, devilment, devilry, diablerie, evil, evil magic, evildoing, high jinks, iniquity, magic, mischief-making, mischievousness, misdeed, naughtiness, offense, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigans, sin, trouble, wickedness, witchcraft, witchery, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | immorality |
| 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, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, offense, outrage, peccancy, racket, scandal, sin, sneak, tort, transgression, trespass, unlawful act, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impingement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trespass |
| Synonyms: | breach, contravention, crime, delinquency, encroachment, entrenchment, error, evildoing, fault, infraction, infringement, iniquity, injury, intrusion, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, obtrusion, poaching, sin, transgression, unlawful entry, violation, wrongdoing, wrongful entry |
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