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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class VI. Words Relating to the Sentient and Moral Powers |
| Section IV. Moral Affections |
| 3. Moral Conditions |
| 945. Vice. |
| NOUN: | VICE; evildoing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness &c. adj.; hardness of heart; iniquity, peccability, demerit; sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam. immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; want of -principle - ballast; knavery, (improbity) [See Improbity]; atrocity, brutality (malevolence) [See Malevolence]; obliquity, back-sliding, infamy. DEPRAVITY, demoralization, pravity, pollution; corruption (debasement) [See Deterioration]; profligacy; flagrancy, unnatural desires, unnatural habits, Sadism, Lesbianism, sodomy; lust [See Impurity]. lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den; gusto picaresco [L.]. CANNIBALISM, endocannibalism, endophagy; exocannibalism, exophagy; “long pig” [humorous]. WEAKNESS &c. adj.; infirmity, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot. fault, crime; criminality (guilt) [See Guilt]. REPROBATE; sinner [See Bad Man]. [RESORTS] brothel [See Impurity]; gambling house [See Chance]; joint [slang], opium den. |
| VERB: | BE VICIOUS &c. adj.; sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean -, forget -, misconduct- oneself; misdo [rare], misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the -line of duty, - path of virtue [See Virtue]; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one’s wild oats. RENDER VICIOUS &c. adj.; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt (degrade) [See Deterioration]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1 VICIOUS; sinful; sinning &c. v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, dissolute, profligate, scampish; worthless, desertless [rare], disgraceful, recreant, disreputable; demoralizing, degrading. miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved; Sadistic, degenerate. evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent [See Malevolence]; heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk -, lost -, deep -, steeped- in iniquity. BASE, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous [obs.], felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed. DIABOLIC or diabolical, Mephistophelian, satanic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hellborn, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish. INCORRIGIBLE, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible (guilty) [See Guilt]. UNJUSTIFIABLE, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible. IMPROPER, unseemly, indecorous, indiscreet, contra bonos mores [L.], unworthy, blameworthy, reprehensible, uncommendable, discreditable; naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful. WEAK, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; spineless, invertebrate [both fig.]; dotty [slang]. |
| ADVERB: | wrong; sinfully &c. adj.; without excuse. |
| INTERJECTION: | fie upon! it smells to heaven! |
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Note 1. Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and to the agent. [ back ] |
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