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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crime |
| Synonyms: | arson, assault, burglary, criminal offense, foul play, murder, offense, rape, robbery, violation, 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 |
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| Main Entry: | foul play |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treacherous action |
| Synonyms: | bad deed, corruption, crime, cruel act, dirty trick, dirty work, felony, fraud, funny business, lawbreaking, murder, violence, wrong |
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, assassination, blood, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, crime, death, destruction, dispatching, felony, foul play, hit*, homicide, knifing, liquidation, lynching, manslaughter, massacre, off*, offing, one-way ticket, rub out, shooting, slaying, taking out, terrorism, the business, the works |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | robbery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing |
| Synonyms: | break-in, burglary, caper, embezzlement, felony, heist, hit, holdup, job, larceny, looting, mortal sin, mugging, purse-snatching, stickup, theft, thievery, unlawful act, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | illegality |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [Absence or violation of law.] Illegality. |
| Category: | 5. Institutions |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law; disobedience; unconformity., arbitrariness; antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry., mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat; le droit du plus fort; argumentum baculinum. illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister., trover and conversion; smuggling, poaching; simony.
-verbs
offend against the law; violate the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands., smuggle, run, poach.
-adjectives
illegal, prohibited; unlawful, illegitimate; not allowed, illicit, contraband, actionable., unchartered, unconstitutional; unwarranted, unwarrantable; unauthorized; informal, unofficial; injudicial, extrajudicial., lawless, arbitrary; despotic, despotical; summary, irresponsible; unanswerable, unaccountable., null and void; a dead letter.
-adverbs
illegally; with a high hand, in violation of law.
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| Antonyms: | legality |
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