| Main Entry: | accountability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
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answerability, blameworthiness, liability |
| Main Entry: | blame |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility |
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accountability, answerability, burden, culpability, fault, guilt, incrimination, liability, onus, rap |
| Main Entry: | duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moral obligation |
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accountability, accountableness, allegiance, amenability, answerability, burden, call of duty, charge, conscience, deference, devoir, faithfulness, good faith, honesty, integrity, liability, loyalty, obedience, pledge, respect, reverence |
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faithlessness, inconstancy, treachery |
| Main Entry: | fault |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame, sin; mistake |
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accountability, answerability, blunder, crime, culpability, defect, delinquency, dereliction, error, evil doing, failing, flaw, foible, frailty, guilt, impropriety, inaccuracy, indiscretion, infirmity, lapse, liability, loss of innocence, malfeasance, malpractice, misconduct, miscue, misdeed, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, omission, onus, oversight, peccancy, responsibility, slip, slip-up, solecism, transgression, trespass, vice, weakness, wrong, wrongdoing |
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advantage, benefit, blessing, correctness, good, perfection |
| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame; bad conscience over responsibility |
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answerability, blameworthiness, contrition, crime, criminality, culpability, delinquency, dereliction, disgrace, dishonor, error, failing, fault, indiscretion, infamy, iniquity, lapse, liability, malefaction, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misstep, offense, onus, peccability, penitence, regret, remorse, responsibility, self-condemnation, self-reproach, shame, sin, sinfulness, slip, solecism, stigma, transgression, wickedness, wrong |
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innocence |
| Main Entry: | responsibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accountability, blame |
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albatross, amenability, answerability, authority, boundness, burden, care, charge, constraint, contract, culpability, duty, encumbrance, engagement, fault, guilt, holding the bag, importance, incubus, incumbency, liability, obligation, obligatoriness, onus, pledge, power, rap, restraint, subjection, trust |
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exemption, freedom, immunity, irresponsibility |
| Main Entry: | duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accountable, affianced, amenable, answerable, beholden to, behooving, binding, bound, bound by, bound to, casuistical, chargeable on, committed, compromised, conscientious, due to, dutiful, ethical, ethological, imperative, in duty bound, in for it, incumbent on, indebted to, liable, meet, moral, obligatory, obliged to, peremptory, pledged, promised, promising, promissory, responsible, right, saddled with, stringent, tied by, tied down, under hand and seal, under obligation, upon oath, votive
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| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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black, abandoned, accursed, adulterine, apostate, atrocious, bad, base, blameworthy, censurable, compunctious, condemned, corrupt, criminal, criminogenic, culpable, deep in iniquity, degrading, demoniacal, demoralized, demoralizing, depraved, desertless, diabolic, diabolical, discreditable, disgraceful, disorderly, disreputable, dissolute, doli incapax, dolose, evil-disposed, evil-minded, exceptionable, facinorous, false, fedifragous, felonious, fiendlike, flagitious, flagrant, foul, frail, graceless, grave, gross, guilt-sick, guilty, heartless, heinous, hell-born, hellish, hit-and-run, hot, ill-conditioned, illaudable, illegal, immoral, imperfect, improper, in fault, in the wrong, in the wrong box, incarnate, incorrect, incorrigible, indecorous, indefensible, indiscreet, inequitable, inexcusable, inexpiable, infamous, infernal, infirm, iniquitous, irreclaimable, irremissible, lawless, lax, lost in iniquity, lost to virtue, mala fide, malevolent, mephistophelian, misbegotten, miscreated, mutinous, naughty, nefarious, nefast, obdurate, objectionable, of a deep dye, one-sided, partial, past praying for, peccable, peccaminous, penal, perfidious, piacular, poison-pen, profligate, recidivous, recreant, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scampish, scandalous, scurvy, seditious, shameful, sinful, sinister, sinning, steeped in iniquity, stygian, sunk in iniquity, supercilious, thelyphthoric, to blame, too bad, transgressive, treacherous, unallowable, uncommendable, unconscionable, unduteous, undutiful, unequal, unequitable, unfair, unfit, unjust, unjustifiable, unjustified, unpardonable, unprincipled, unrighteous, unseemly, unwarrantable, unworthy, vicious, vile, villainous, virtueless, weak, wee-wow, weighed in the balance and found wanting, wicked, wired, worthless, wrong, wrongful
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| Concept: | Duty. |
| Category: | 1. Moral obligations |
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-nouns
duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation, accountableness, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty, imperative duty; call, call of duty; accountability., allegiance, fealty, tie engagement (promise) [more]; part; function, calling (business)., morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience; the hell within., dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum; the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do., [Science of morals] ethics, ethology.; deontology, aretology; moral philosophy, ethical philosophy; casuistry, polity., observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal, satisfaction, redemption; good behavior.
-verbs
be the duty of; be incumbent on, be responsible; behoove, become, befit, beseem; belong to, pertain to; fall to one's lot; devolve on; lie upon, lie on one's head, lie at one's door; rest with, rest on the shoulders of. take upon oneself (promise) [more]; be bound to, become bound to, be sponsor for, become sponsor for; incur a responsibility n.; be under an obligation, stand under an obligation, lie under an obligation; have to answer for, owe to it oneself., impose a duty; enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige., enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty (be virtuous) [more]., be on one's good behavior, mind one's P's and Q's.
-adjectives
obligatory, binding; imperative, peremptory; stringent (severe); behooving; incumbent on, chargeable on; under obligation; obliged by, bound by, tied by; saddled with., due to, beholden to, bound to, indebted to; tied down; compromised (promised); in duty bound., amenable, liable, accountable, responsible, answerable., right, meet (due); moral, ethical, casuistical, conscientious, ethological.
-adverbs
with a safe conscience, as in duty, bound, on one's own responsibility, at one's own risk, suo periculo; in foro conscientiae; quamdiu se bene gesserit.
-phrases
dura lex sed lex; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; honos habet onus; leve fit quod bene fertur onus [Ovid]; loyauté m'oblige; "simple duty hath no place for fear" [Whittier]; "stern daughter of the voice of God" [Wordsworth]; "there
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Antonyms: |
dereliction of duty |
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| Concept: | Guilt. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
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-nouns
guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness; deviation from rectitude (improbity); sinfulness (vice)., misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break [U.S.], capital crime, delictum., offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasanee, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony., enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; "deed without a name" [Macbeth]., corpus delicti.
-adjectives
guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable.
-adverbs
in flagrante delicto; red-handed, in the very act.
-phrases
cui prodest scelus in fecit [Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes [Horace]; "O would the deed were good!" [Richard II]; "responsibility prevents crimes" [Burke;] se judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Juvenal]; "so many laws argues so many
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Antonyms: |
innocence |
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