Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
949. [Resorts] brothel &c. 961; gambling house &c. 621; joint*, opium
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den, shooting gallery, crack house. V. be vicious &c. adj.; sin, commit
sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself[obs3], forget
oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo[obs3], misbehave; fall, lapse, slip,
trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the
path of virtue &c. 944; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug
a fault; sow one's wild oats. render vicious &c. adj.; demoralize,
brutalize; corrupt &c. (degrade) 659. Adj. vicious[1]; sinful; sinning
&c.v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal;
naughty, incorrect; unduteous[obs3], undutiful. unprincipled, lawless,
disorderly, contra bonos mores[Lat], indecorous, unseemly, improper;
dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless[obs3];
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[obs3], hell-born,
demoniacal, devilish, fiendish. miscreated[obs3], misbegotten;
demoralized, corrupt, depraved. evil-minded, evil-disposed;
ill-conditioned; malevolent &c. 907; 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 &c. (guilty) 947. unjustifiable; indefensible,
inexcusable; inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible[obs3]. weak, frail,
lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing, degrading. Adv.
wrong; sinfully &c. adj.; without excuse. Int. O tempora[obs3]! O
mores! Phr. alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Lat][obs3][Vergil]; genus
est mortis male vivere [Lat][Ovid]; mala mens malus animus
[Lat][Terence]; nemo repente fuit turpissimus[Lat]; "the trail of the
serpent is over them all" [Moore]; "to sanction vice and hunt decorum
down" [Bryon].
[Note 1 - Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and
to the agent.].
#946. Innocence.—N. innocence; guiltlessness &c. adj.;
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incorruption, impeccability.
clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti
[Lat][Vergil].
innocent, lamb, dove.
V. be innocent &c. adj; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa
[Lat][Horace].
acquit &c. 970; exculpate &c. (vindicate) 937.
Adj. innocent, not guilty; unguilty[obs3]; guiltless, faultless,
sinless, stainless, bloodless, spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in
curia[Lat]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring; undefiled &c. 939;
unhardened[obs3], Saturnian; Arcadian &c. (artless) 703[obs3].
inculpable, unculpable[obs3]; unblamed, unblamable[obs3];
blameless,
unfallen[obs3], inerrable[obs3], above suspicion; irreproachable,
irreprovable[obs3], irreprehensible[obs3]; unexceptionable,
unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable[obs3]; venial &c. 937.
harmless; inoffensive, innoxious[obs3], innocuous; dove-like,
lamb-
like; pure, harmless as doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe
unborn; "more sinned against than sinning" [Lear].
virtuous &c. 944; unreproved[obs3], unimpeached,
unreproached[obs3].
Adv. innocently &c. adj.; with clean hands; with a clear
conscience,
with a safe conscience.
Phr. murus aeneus conscientia sana [Lat][obs3][Horace].
#947. Guilt.—N. guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality,
criminousness[obs3]; deviation from rectitude &c. (improbity)
940[obs3]; sinfulness &c. (vice) 945. misconduct, misbehavior,
misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression;
dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux
pas[Fr], peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad
break |![U.S.], capital crime, delictum[Lat]. offense, trespass;
misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance,
malversation; crime, felony. enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin,
mortal sin; "deed without a name" [Macbeth]. corpus delicti. Adj.
guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable[obs3], in fault, at fault,
censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable,
illaudable[obs3]; weighed in the balance and found wanting;
exceptionable. Adv. in flagrante delicto[Lat]; red-handed, in the very
act, with one's hand in the cookie jar. Phr. cui prodest scelus in
fecit [Lat][Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes [Lat][Horace]; "O would
the deed were good!" [Richard II]; "responsibility prevents crimes" se
judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Lat][Burke;][Juvenal]; "so many laws
argues so many sins" [Paradise Lost].
#948. Good Man.—N. good man, honest man, worthy.
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good woman, perfect lady, Madonna.
model, paragon &c. (perfection) 650; good example; hero, heroine,
demigod, seraph, angel; innocent &c. 946; saint &c. (piety) 987;
benefactor
&c. 912; philanthropist &c. 910; Aristides[obs3]; noble liver|!,
pattern.
brick*, trump*, gem, jewel, good fellow, prince, diamond in the
rough,
rough diamond, ugly duckling|!.
salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a
gentleman
and a scholar; pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among
men.
Phr. si sic omnes[Lat]!
#949. Bad Man.—N. bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer
&c. 913; sinner; the wicked &c. 945; bad example. villain, rascal,
scoundrel, miscreant, budmash[obs3], caitiff|!; wretch, reptile,
viper, serpent, cockatrice, basilisk, urchin; tiger|!, monster; devil
&c. (demon) 980; devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib;
hellhound, hellcat; rakehell[obs3]. bad woman, jade, Jezebel. scamp,
scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag,
scallawag. rou[French], rake; Sadist; skeesicks*[obs3], skeezix*
[obs3][U.S.]; limb; one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen
angel, ame damnee[Fr], vaurien[obs3], mauvais sujet[Fr], loose fish,
sad dog; rounder*; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant,
defaulter; prodigal &c. 818. rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly
customer, mean mother [coll.], ruffian, bully, meanie [jocular];
Jonathan Wild; hangman. incendiary, arsonist, fire bug [U.S.]. thief
&c. 792; murderer, terrorist &c. 361. [person who violates the criminal
law] culprit, delinquent, crook, hoodlum, hood, criminal, thug,
malefactor, offender, perpetrator, perp [coll.]; disorderly person,
misdemeanant[Law]; outlaw; scofflaw; vandal; felon[convicted criminal];
convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man; multiple
offender. blackguard, polisson[obs3], loafer, sneak; rapscallion,
rascallion[obs3]; cullion[obs3], mean wretch, varlet, kern[obs3],
ame-de- boue[Fr], drole[obs3]; cur, dog, hound|!, whelp|!, mongrel|!;
lown|!, loon, runnion[obs3], outcast, vagabond; rogue &c. (knave) 941;
ronian[obs3]; scum of the earth, riffraff; Arcades ambo[obs3]. Int.
sirrah[obs3]! Phr. Acherontis pabulum[obs3]; gibier de potence[Fr].
#950. Penitence.—N. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance,
remorse; regret &c. 833. self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation,
self-condemnation, self- humiliation; stings of conscience, pangs of
conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience[obs3], twinge
of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of
conscience; compunctious visitings of nature[obs3]. acknowledgment,
confession &c. (disclosure) 529; apology &c. 952; recantation &c. 607;
penance &c. 952; resipiscence|!. awakened conscience, deathbed
repentance, locus paenitentiae[Lat], stool of repentance,
cuttystool[obs3]. penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, "a
sadder and a wiser man" [Coleridge]. V. repent, be sorry for; be
penitent &c. adj.; rue; regret &c. 833; think better of; recant &c.
607; knock under &c. (submit) 725; plead guilty; sing miserere[Lat],
sing de profundis[Lat]; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong;
acknowledge, confess &c, (disclose) 529; humble oneself; beg pardon &c.
(apologize) 952; turn over a new leaf, put on the new man, turn from
sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes &c, (do penance) 952; learn
by experience. Adj. penitent; repenting &c.v.; repentant, contrite;
conscience- smitten, conscience-stricken; self-accusing,
self-convicted. penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed, reborn; not
hardened; unhardened[obs3]. Adv. mea culpa. Phr. peccavi; erubuit[Lat];
salva res est [Lat][Terence]; Tu l'as voulu[Fr], Georges Dandin; "and
wet his grave with my repentant tears" [Richard III].
#951. Impenitence.—N. impenitence, irrepentance[obs3],
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recusance[obs3]; lack of contrition.
hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy.
V. be impenitent &c. adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; die
game, die and make no sign, die unshriven, die without benefit of
clergy.
Adj. impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared,
recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless,
shriftless[obs3].
lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable.
unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed; unrepented[obs3],
unreclaimed[obs3], unatoned.
#952. Atonement.—N. atonement, reparation; compromise, composition;
compensation &c. 30; quittance, quits; expiation, redemption,
reclamation, conciliation, propitiation; indemnification, redress.
amends, apology, amende honorable[obs3], satisfaction; peace offering,
sin offering, burnt offering; scapegoat, sacrifice. penance, fasting,
maceration, sackcloth and ashes, white sheet, shrift, flagellation,
lustration[obs3]; purgation, purgatory. V. atone, atone for; expiate;
propitiate; make amends, make good; reclaim, redeem, repair, ransom,
absolve, purge, shrive, do penance, stand in a white sheet, repent in
sackcloth and ashes, wear a hairshirt. set one's house in order, wipe
off old scores, make matters up; pay the forfeit, pay the penalty.
apologize, beg pardon, fair l'amende honorable[Fr], give satisfaction;
come down on one's knees, fall down on one's knees, down on one's
marrow bones.
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