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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contaminant |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, contamination, corruption, defilement, dirt, filth, foreign matter, grime, pestilence, poisoning, pollutant, pollution, scum, stain, taint, uncleanness |
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| Concept: | Impurity. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
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-nouns
impurity; uncleanness, filth; immodesty; grossness; indelicacy, indecency; impudicity; obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque., concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity; pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity; Sadism, sapphism., incontinence, intrigue, faux pas; amour, amourette; gallantry; debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication; liaison; wenching, venery, dissipation., seduction; defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape; incest., social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, criminal conversation; free love., seraglio, harem; brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel.
-verbs
be impure; intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; prostitute; abuse, violate, deflower; commit adultery.
-adjectives
impure; unclean (dirty); not to be mentioned to ears polite; immodest, shameless; indecorous, indelicate, indecent; Fescennine; loose, risqué, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic., concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful; carnal, carnal-minded; lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious; Paphian; voluptuous; goatish, must, musty., unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute; of loose character, of easy virtue; frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated; no better than she should be; on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose., adulterous, incestuous, bestial.
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| Antonyms: | purity |
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| Main Entry: | blemish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flaw |
| Synonyms: | beauty spot, birthmark, blackhead, blister, bloom*, blot, blot on the landscape, blotch, blur, brand, bruise, bug*, catch, chip, cicatrix, defacement, defect, deformity, dent, discoloration, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, eyesore, fault, freckle, hickey, imperfection, impurity, lentigo, lump, macula, maculation, mark, mole, nevus, nodule, patch, pimple, pock, pockmark, scar, second, sight, smudge, snag, speck, speckle, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, vice, wart, whitehead, zit |
| Antonyms: | adornment, decoration, embellishment, ornament |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contamination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulteration |
| Synonyms: | contagion, corruption, decay, defilement, dirtying, disease, epidemic, filth, foulness, impurity, infection, pestilence, plague, poisoning, pollution, radioactivation, rottenness, spoliation, taint |
| Antonyms: | cleaning, cure, healing, purification, sterilization |
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baseness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, decadence, degeneration, degradation, depravity, evil, immorality, impurity, infamy, iniquity, looseness, lubricity, perversion, profligacy, sinfulness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vulgarity, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | decency, goodness, honor, kindness, wholesomeness |
| Main Entry: | filth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dirt, pollution |
| Synonyms: | carrion, contamination, corruption, crud, defilement, dregs, dung, excrement, feces, feculence, filthiness, foul matter, foulness, garbage, grime, impurity, manure, mire, muck, mud, nastiness, ordure, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, refuse, rottenness, sediment, sewage, silt, sleaze, slime, slop, sludge, slush, smut, trash, uncleanness |
| Antonyms: | cleanliness, purity, sterility |
| Main Entry: | indecency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity, vulgarity |
| Synonyms: | bawdiness, coarseness, crudity, drunkenness, evil, foulness, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, incivility, indecorum, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, offense, outrageousness, pornography, ribaldry, smuttiness, unseemliness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, cleanness, decency, modesty, purity, virtue |
| 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: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, wrong |
| Antonyms: | cleanness, decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness |
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