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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crime |
| Synonyms: | criminality, dirt, dirty deed, dirty pool, fault, infringement, malefaction, misbehavior, misconduct, miscue, misdemeanor, offense, peccadillo, sin, slipup, transgression, trespass, villainy, violation, wrong |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical hurting, injuring |
| Synonyms: | crime, damage, defilement, harm, hurt, impairment, injury, malevolence, maltreatment, manhandling, misdeed, offense, pollution, violation, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Antonyms: | aid, help, preservation, respect |
| Main Entry: | crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense against the law |
| 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, illegality, immorality, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, tort, transgression, trespass, unlawful act, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, 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 |
| Antonyms: | good deed, kindness |
| Main Entry: | delinquency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconduct |
| Synonyms: | crime, default, dereliction, failure, fault, lapse, misbehavior, misdeed, misdemeanor, neglect, nonfeasance, nonobservance, offense, oversight, weakness, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | good behavior |
| Main Entry: | error |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake; wrong |
| Synonyms: | X, absurdity, bad job, blunder, boner, boo-boo, delinquency, delusion, deviation, erratum, failure, fall, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, glitch, goof, howler, inaccuracy, lapse, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, misconception, miscue, misdeed, misjudgment, mismanagement, miss, misstep, misunderstanding, offense, omission, oversight, screamer, screw-up, sin, slight, slip, slipup, solecism, stumble, transgression, trespass, untruth, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | accuracy, certainty, correction, right, truth, validity |
| Main Entry: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame, sin; mistake |
| Synonyms: | accountability, answerability, blunder, crime, culpability, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, evil doing, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, loss of innocence, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, peccancy, responsibility, slip, slip-up, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection |
| Main Entry: | iniquity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sin, evil |
| Synonyms: | abomination, baseness, crime, evildoing, heinousness, immorality, infamy, injustice, miscreancy, misdeed, offense, sinfulness, unfairness, unrighteousness, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Notes: | inequity is 'injustice, unfairness'; iniquity refers to 'immorality, sin, wickedness' |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | malpractice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abuse, misconduct |
| Synonyms: | carelessness, dereliction, malefaction, misbehavior, misdeed, mismanagement, negligence, offense, transgression, violation |
| Main Entry: | misbehavior |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | naughty act, conduct |
| Synonyms: | acting up, fault, immorality, impropriety, incivility, indiscipline, insubordination, mischief, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, monkey business, naughtiness, rudeness, shenanigans*, transgression, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | behavior, good conduct, manners, obedience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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