Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small fault |
| Synonyms: | bad habit, faux pas, impropriety, indiscretion, minor fault, minor infraction, minor sin, misdemeanor, petty offense, slight transgression, small infraction, small sin, venial sin, vice |
| Main Entry: | transgression |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation, misbehavior |
| Synonyms: | breach, breaking of the law, contravention, crime, defiance, disobedience, encroachment, erring, error, fault, infraction, infringement, iniquity, lapse, misdeed, misdemeanor, offense, overstepping, sin, slip, trespass, vice, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | behavior, good manners, obedience, right |
| Main Entry: | turpitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depravity |
| Synonyms: | baseness, corruption, criminality, debasement, debauchery, degradation, evil, immorality, improbity, lewdness, licentiousness, perversion, sinfulness, vice, viciousness, vileness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
| Synonyms: | Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | strength, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense, sin |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bad deed, bias, blunder, crime, cruelty, damage, delinquency, discourtesy, error, evil, faux pas, favor, foul play, grievance, harm, hurt, immorality, imposition, indecency, inequity, inhumanity, iniquity, injury, injustice, insult, libel, malevolence, miscarriage, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, mistake, oppression, persecution, prejudice, sinfulness, slander, slight, spite, tort, transgression, trespass, turpitude, unfairness, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | goodness, kindness, right, virtue |
| Main Entry: | mortal sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unforgivable sin |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, cardinal sin, deadly sin, disgrace, venial sin, vice |
| Main Entry: | venial sin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slight transgression |
| Synonyms: | impropriety, indiscretion, lapse, minor wrong, misstep, peccadillo, slight, slip, vice |
| Main Entry: | wickedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sinfulness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, depravity, deviltry, evil, flagrancy, immorality, infamy, iniquity, offense, sin, unrighteousness, vice |
| Main Entry: | feet of clay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hidden character flaw |
| Synonyms: | character flaw, fault, flaw, vice, weakness |
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