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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coarseness |
| Synonyms: | crassness, crudity, discourtesy, filthiness, foulness, grossness, indecency, lewdness, obscenity, profaneness, profanity, rudeness |
| Main Entry: | peccancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evil |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow*, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain*, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
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| Main Entry: | vulgarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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affected, alabandical, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, bedizened, blackguard, boorish, brutish, clownish, coarse, countrified, doggerel, dowdy, extravagant, fescennine, gaudy, gingerbread, gothic, gross, heathenish, heavy, home, homespun, horrid, ill, in bad taste, incondite, indecorous, low, meretricious, monstrous, newfangled, obsolete, obtrusive, odd, outlandish, particular, provincial, raffish, ribald, rowdy, rudas, rude, rustic, savage, shabby, slovenly, snobbish, spurcidical, tawdry, tramontane, tricked out, unbeseeming, uncivil, unclassical, uncombed, uncourtly, uncouth, underbred, unfashionable, unfeminine, ungenteel, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, unkempt, unladylike, unlicked, unpolished, unpresentable, unrefined, unseemly, untamed, vulgar
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| Concept: | Evil. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
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-nouns
evil, ill, harm, hurt, mischief, nuisance; machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to., blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation; mortal blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus; damage, loss (deterioration)., disadvantage, prejudice, drawback., disaster, accident, casualty; mishap (misfortune); bad job, devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin (destruction); adversity., mental suffering., [Evil spirit] demon [more]., [Cause of evil] bane [more]., [Production of evil] badness [more]; painfulness; evildoer., outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice, spoliation; grievance, crying evil.
-verbs
-adjectives
disastrous, bad; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous.
-adverbs
amis, wrong, ill, to one's cost
-phrases
"moving accidents by flood and field" [Othello]
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| Antonyms: | good |
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| Concept: | [Bad taste.] Vulgarity. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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vulgarity, vulgarism; barbarism, Vandalism, Gothicism; mauvis gout, bad taste; gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact; ill-breeding (discourtesy) [more]., courseness; indecorum, misbehavior., lowness, homeliness; low life, mauvais ton, rusticity; boorishness; brutality; rowdyism, blackguardism; ribaldry; slang (neology)., bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie., [Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant., rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern.
-verbs
be vulgar; misbehave; takk shop, smell of the shop.
-adjectives
in bad taste vulgar, unrefined., coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross; unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable; contra bonos mores; ungraceful (ugly)., dowdy; slovenly (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt., unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish; uncultivated; Bohemian.
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| Antonyms: | taste |
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