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ON TAKE
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dishonest |
| Synonyms: | base, bent, bribable, crooked, debauched, double-dealing, exploiting, extortionate, faithless, fast and loose, fixed, foul, fraudulent, gone to the dogs, inconstant, iniquitous, knavish, mercenary, nefarious, on the take, open, padded, perfidious, praetorian, profiteering, racket up, reprobate, rotten, shady, snide, suborned, tainted, treacherous, two-faced, underhanded, unethical, unfaithful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, venal, wide open |
| Antonyms: | decent, honest, honorable, principled, pure, trustworthy, truthful, uncorrupt, upright |
| Main Entry: | dissolute |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lacking restraint, indulgent |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, corrupt, debauched, degenerate, depraved, dissipated, evil, fast and loose, fast*, gone bad, high living, in the fast lane, intemperate, lascivious, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, licentious, light, loose*, night owl, nighthawk, on the take, open, player*, profligate, raffish, rakish, reprobate, slack, swift, sybaritic, unconstrained, unprincipled, unrestrained, vicious, wanton, wayward, wicked, wild |
| Antonyms: | chaste, good, moral, pure, resolute, respectful, virtuous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | venal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bribable, corruptible |
| Synonyms: | amoral, bent*, buyable, conscienceless, corrupt, crooked, dishonest, double-dealing, immoral, mercenary, on the take, padded, purchasable, unethical, unprincipled, unprofessional, unscrupulous |
| Notes: | venal is 'corruptible, unscrupulous'; venial is 'forgivable; not criminal' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | villainousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
| Synonyms: | bestiality, breach of trust, bribery, bribing, crime, crookedness, demoralization, depravity, exploitation, extortion, fiddling, flagitiousness, fraud*, fraudulency, graft, immorality, jobbery, malfeasance, misrepresentation, nepotism, on the take, payoff, payola, perversion, profiteering, racket, shadiness, shady deal, shuffle, skimming, squeeze*, turpitude, unscrupulousness, venality, vice, villainy, wickedness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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