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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wickedness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, baseness, depravity, knavery, rascality, scoundrelism, turpitude, viciousness, vileness |
| 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: | enormity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horribleness |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrociousness, atrocity, crime, depravity, disgrace, evil, evilness, flagrancy, grossness, heinousness, horror, monstrosity, monstrousness, nefariousness, outrage, outrageousness, rankness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness |
| Notes: | enormity is the quality of extreme wickedness while enormousness is unusual largeness in size or extent |
| Antonyms: | goodness |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diablerie, 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 |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | infamy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shameful, bad reputation |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, disapprobation, discredit, disesteem, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, enormity, evil, ignominy, immorality, impropriety, notoriety, notoriousness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, outrageousness, scandal, shame, stigma, villainy, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | dignity, goodness, innocence, morality, righteousness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | injustice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfair treatment; bias |
| Synonyms: | abuse, breach, crime, crying shame, damage, dirty deal, discrimination, encroachment, favoritism, grievance, inequality, inequity, infraction, infringement, iniquity, malfeasance, malpractice, maltreatment, miscarriage, mischief, negligence, offense, onesidedness, oppression, outrage, partiality, partisanship, prejudice, railroad, ruin, sellout, transgression, trespass, unfairness, unjustness, unlawfulness, villainy, violation, wrong, wrongdoing |
| Antonyms: | equality, equity, ethics, fairness, impartiality, justice, lawfulness, morality |
| 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
| 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: | misdeed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crime |
| Synonyms: | criminality, dirt, dirty deed, dirty pool, fault, infringement, malefaction, misbehavior, misconduct, miscue, misdemeanor, offense, peccadillo, sin, slipup, transgression, trespass, villainy, violation, wrong |
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