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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad or unethical behavior |
| Synonyms: | delinquency, dereliction, evil, immorality, impropriety, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation, misbehavior, mischief, misdemeanor, misdoing, mismanagement, naughtiness, offense, rudeness, transgression, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | behavior, manners, obedience |
| 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: | 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: | faux pas |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | social error |
| Synonyms: | blooper, blooper, blunder, blunder in etiquette, boo-boo, botch, breach, break, bungle, colossal blunder, error, flop, flub, foul-up, gaffe, gaffe, gaucherie, goof, hash, impropriety, indecorum, indiscretion, mess, mess-up, misconduct, misjudgment, misstep, mistake, offense, oversight, slip, social blunder, solecism, transgression |
| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame; bad conscience over responsibility |
| Synonyms: | answerability, blameworthiness, contrition, crime, criminality, culpability, delinquency, dereliction, disgrace, dishonor, error, failing, fault, indiscretion, infamy, iniquity, lapse, liability, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misstep, offense, onus, peccability, penitence, regret, remorse, responsibility, self-condemnation, self-reproach, shame, sin, sinfulness, slip, solecism, stigma, transgression, wickedness, wrong |
| Antonyms: | innocence |
| Main Entry: | misbehave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | act in inappropriate manner |
| Synonyms: | act up, be at fault, be bad, be dissolute, be guilty, be immoral, be indecorous, be insubordinate, be mischievous, be out of line, be out of order, be reprehensible, bend the law, carry on, cut up, deviate, do evil, do wrong, fail, fool around, get into mischief, go astray, go wrong, make trouble, misconduct, offend, roughhouse, sin, sow wild oats, take a wrong turn, transgress, trespass |
| Antonyms: | behave, obey |
| 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
| Main Entry: | mischief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trouble, damage |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, catastrophe, devilment, devilry, dirty trick, evil, fault, friskiness, frolicsomeness, funny business, gag, harm, high jinks, hurt, ill, impishness, injury, misbehavior, mischievousness, misconduct, misdoing, misfortune, monkey business, naughtiness, outrage, playfulness, prank, rascality, roguery, roguishness, sabotage, shenanigans, sportiveness, transgression, vandalism, waggery, waggishness, waywardness, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | behavior, obedience |
| Main Entry: | misdeed/misdemeanor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sin, crime |
| Synonyms: | breach of law, criminality, dirt*, dirty deed, dirty pool, fault, infringement, malefaction, misbehavior, misconduct, miscue, offense, peccadillo, slipup, transgression, trespass, villainy, violation, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | goodness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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