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Noun wrongdoing has 2 senses
- wrongdoing(n = noun.attribute) error - departure from what is ethically acceptable; Array is a kind of evil, evilness
- wrongdoing(n = noun.act) actus reus, misconduct, wrongful conduct - activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing" is a kind of activity
has particulars: brutalisation, brutalization, encroachment, intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation, civil wrong, tort, malversation, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, dereliction, malfeasance, misfeasance, malpractice, malpractice, perversion, injury, injury, iniquity, injustice, shabbiness, unfairness, infliction, evildoing, transgression, dishonesty, knavery, falsification, misrepresentation, champerty, criminal maintenance, maintenance, infringement, violation
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wrongdoing
amorality, backsliding, bad policy, badness, carnality, crime, criminality, delict, delinquency, diablerie, discourtesy, disorder, disorderliness, disorderly conduct, disruption, disruptiveness, evil, evil nature, felony, frowned-upon behavior, hooliganism, horseplay, illegality, immorality, impolicy, impropriety, impurity, inexpedience, inexpediency, iniquity, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, misadministration, misbehavior, misconduct, misdemeanor, misdirection, misdoing, misfeasance, misgovernment, misguidance, mishandling, mismanagement, misrule, moral delinquency, naughtiness, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, nonsanctioned behavior, offense, omission, peccability, prodigality, recidivism, roughhouse, rowdiness, rowdyism, ruffianism, sin, tort, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, ungodliness, ungoodness, unmorality, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unvirtuousness, vandalism, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wantonness, waywardness, wrongROGET THESAURUS
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Vice
N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.
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