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crime - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | crime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense against the law |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, fault, felony, hit, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, transgression, trespass, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, antisocial behavior, criminality, delict, delictum, evil behavior, fast one, illegality, immorality, malefaction, tort, unlawful act |
| 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: | burglary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stealing from residence, business |
| Synonyms: | breaking and entering, caper, crime, heist, larceny, prowl, robbery, sting, theft, thieving, break-in, filching, housebreaking, owl job, pilferage, safecracking, second-story work |
| Main Entry: | carnage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | massacre |
| Synonyms: | blitz, blood, bloodshed, crime, gore, havoc, holocaust, homicide, killing, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, rapine, shambles, slaughter, warfare, annihilation, blood and guts, blood bath, butchering, butchery, extermination, hecatomb, liquidation, offing, search and destroy, slaying, taking out, wasting |
| Main Entry: | con |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trick |
| Synonyms: | bluff, cheat, crime, deception, double-cross, dupe, fraud, graft, mockery, swindle, take in, gold brick |
| Antonyms: | honesty, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | contraband |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | black-market production |
| Synonyms: | counterfeiting, crime, goods*, moonshine*, piracy, plunder, smuggling, stuff, swag, theft, violation, bootlegging, dealing, poaching, rum-running, trafficking, wetbacking |
| Antonyms: | legal goods |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | delinquency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misconduct |
| Synonyms: | crime, default, dereliction, failure, fault, lapse, misbehavior, misdeed, misdemeanor, neglect, offense, oversight, weakness, wrongdoing, nonfeasance, nonobservance |
| Antonyms: | good behavior |
| Main Entry: | depredation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devastation, destruction |
| Synonyms: | burglary, crime, desecration, desolation, pillage, plunder, rapine, robbery, stealing, theft, despoiling, laying waste, marauding, ransacking, ravaging, sacking, spoliation, wasting |
| Antonyms: | boon, construction, goodness, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
| Synonyms: | affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, curse, debauchery, depravity, diablerie, harm, hatred, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, lewdness, malevolence, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, ruin, sin, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing, criminality, devilry, diabolism, heinousness, knavery, licentiousness, looseness, malignity, perversity, sinfulness, viciousness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | foul play |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | treacherous action |
| Synonyms: | corruption, crime, dirty work, felony, fraud, lawbreaking, murder, violence, wrong, bad deed, cruel act, dirty trick, funny business |
| Main Entry: | guilt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | blame; bad conscience over responsibility |
| Synonyms: | contrition, crime, delinquency, dereliction, disgrace, dishonor, error, failing, fault, indiscretion, infamy, iniquity, lapse, liability, malfeasance, malpractice, misbehavior, misconduct, misstep, offense, onus, penitence, regret, remorse, responsibility, shame, sin, slip, solecism, stigma, transgression, wickedness, wrong, answerability, blameworthiness, criminality, culpability, malefaction, peccability, self-condemnation, self-reproach, sinfulness |
| Antonyms: | innocence |
| Main Entry: | heist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burglary, robbery |
| Synonyms: | breaking and entering, caper, crime, holdup, larceny, rip-off, stickup, sting, theft, break-in, five-finger discount, pilferage |
| Main Entry: | homicide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
| Synonyms: | bloodshed, carnage, crime, death, erase*, foul play, hit, manslaughter, murder, ride, assassination, big chill, bump-off, butchery, offing, rubout, slaying |
| Antonyms: | birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | infraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | violation |
| Synonyms: | breach, breaking, crime, error, faux pas, infringement, lapse, offense, sin, slip*, transgression, trespass, contravention |
| Antonyms: | obedience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | iniquity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sin, evil |
| Synonyms: | abomination, baseness, crime, infamy, injustice, misdeed, offense, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, evildoing, heinousness, immorality, miscreancy, sinfulness, unfairness, unrighteousness |
| Antonyms: | good, goodness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | injustice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfair treatment; bias |
| Synonyms: | abuse, breach, crime, damage, discrimination, encroachment, favoritism, grievance, inequality, inequity, infraction, infringement, iniquity, malfeasance, malpractice, maltreatment, miscarriage, mischief, negligence, offense, oppression, outrage, partiality, prejudice, railroad*, ruin, transgression, trespass, villainy, violation, wrong, wrongdoing, crying shame, dirty deal, onesidedness, partisanship, sellout, unfairness, unjustness, unlawfulness |
| Antonyms: | equality, equity, ethics, fairness, impartiality, justice, morality, lawfulness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | larceny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theft |
| Synonyms: | burglary, crime, lift, pinch, robbery, steal, stealing, thievery, thieving, touch*, misappropriation, pilfering, purloining |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | manslaughter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing without malicious forethought |
| Synonyms: | crime, foul play*, hit*, homicide, killing, murder |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
| Synonyms: | blood, bloodshed, carnage, crime, death, destruction, felony, foul play*, hit*, homicide, lynching, manslaughter, massacre, off*, rub out*, shooting, annihilation, assassination, butchery, dispatching, knifing, liquidation, offing, one-way ticket, slaying, taking out, terrorism, the business, the works |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sacrilege |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irreverence |
| Synonyms: | blasphemy, crime, curse, desecration, heresy, impiety, mockery, offense, profanity, sin, violation, profanation, profaneness |
| Antonyms: | piety, respect, reverence |
| Main Entry: | scandal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public embarrassment |
| Synonyms: | aspersion, backbiting, calumny, crime, defamation, depreciation, detraction, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparagement, disrepute, dynamite, gossip, hearsay, ignominy, infamy, mud, obloquy, opprobrium, reproach, rumor, shame, sin, slander, tale, talk, turpitude, wrongdoing, backstabbing, belittlement, dirty linen, eavesdropping, idle rumor, scorcher, skeleton in closet |
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