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[sin] 
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sin
[sin]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | commit illegal or immoral action |
| Synonyms: | backslide, break commandment, break law, cheat, commit crime, deviate, do wrong, err, fall, fall from grace, go astray, lapse, live in sin, misbehave, misconduct, offend, sow wild oats, stray, take the primrose path, transgress, trespass, wallow in the mire, wander |
| Antonyms: | behave, comply, obey |
| Main Entry: | backslide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go astray |
| Synonyms: | apostatize, deviate, fall from grace, lapse, leave the straight and narrow, relapse, revert, sin, slip |
| Main Entry: | commit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform an action |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, complete, contravene, do, effectuate, enact, execute, go for broke, go in for, go out for, offend, perpetrate, pull, pull off, scandalize, sin, transgress, trespass, violate, wreak |
| Antonyms: | cease, desist, end, idle, loaf, rest, stop, wait |
| Main Entry: | err |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a mistake; do wrong |
| Synonyms: | be in error, be inaccurate, be incorrect, be mistaken, blow*, blunder, bollix, boo-boo, deviate, drop the ball, fall, flub, foul up, go astray, go wrong, goof, lapse, louse up, make a mess of, mess up*, misapprehend, misbehave, miscalculate, misjudge, muff, offend, screw up, sin, slip up, snafu, snarl up, stray, stumble, transgress, trespass, wander |
| Antonyms: | correct |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | errant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; deviant |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, deviating, devious, drifting, errable, erratic, erring, fallible, heretic, meandering, misbehaving, mischievous, miscreant, naughty, off straight and narrow, offending, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, sinning, stray, straying, unorthodox, unreliable, wandering, wayward |
| Notes: | an errand is a short trip that is taken for a specific purpose; arrant means thoroughgoing - downright - out-and-out - extreme - notorious; errant means wandering or roving especially in search of adventure - deviating or straying from an appointed course - straying from the proper standards - moving aimlessly or irregularly |
| Antonyms: | correct, righteous |
| 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: | offend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | displease, insult |
| Synonyms: | affront, aggrieve, anger, annoy, antagonize, be disagreeable, disgruntle, disgust, disoblige, distress, disturb, exasperate, fret, gall, horrify, hurt, irritate, jar, miff, nauseate, nettle, outrage, pain, pique, provoke, repel, repulse, rile, shock, sicken, sin, slight, slur, snub, sting, transgress, trespass, turn one off, upset, vex, wound, zing |
| Antonyms: | compliment, please |
| Main Entry: | stray |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deviate, err |
| Synonyms: | circumlocute, depart, digress, divagate, diverge, do wrong, excurse, get off the subject, get off the track, get sidetracked, go off on a tangent, ramble, sin, wander |
| Antonyms: | remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | trespass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | infringe, offend |
| Synonyms: | butt in, chisel in, crash, crash the gates, deviate, displease, do wrong by, encroach, entrench, err, horn in, interlope, intrude, invade, kibitz, lapse, meddle, misbehave, mix in, muscle in, nose in, obtrude, overstep, penetrate, poach, poke, sin, stick nose in, transgress, violate, wrong |
| Antonyms: | retreat |
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