| Main Entry: | improbity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, corruptness, decadence, degeneration, degradation, depravity, dishonesty, evil, immorality, impurity, infamy, iniquity, looseness, lubricity, perversion, profligacy, sinfulness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vulgarity, wickedness |
| Concept: | Improbity. |
| Category: | 3. Moral conditions |
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-nouns
improbity; dishonesty, dishonor; deviation from rectitude; disgrace (disrepute); fraud (deception); lying; bad faith, Punic faith; mala fides, Punica fides; infidelity; faithlessness; Judas kiss, betrayal., breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith; prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason; apostacy (tergiversation); nonobservance., shabbiness; villany; baseness; abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling., perfidy; perfidiousness; treachery, double dealing; unfairness; knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor (flattery).
-verbs
be dishonest; play false; break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise; jilt, betray, forswear; shuffle (lie); live by one's wits, sail near the wind., disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself; derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste; sell oneself, go over to the enemy; seal one's infamy.
-adjectives
dishonest, dishonorable; unconscientious, unscrupulous; fraudulent; knavish; disgraceful (disreputable); wicked., false-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured., infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard., contemptible, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging; beneath one., low-minded, low-thoughted; base-minded.
-adverbs
dishonestly; mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths.
-phrases
corruptissima respublica plurimae leges [Tacitus].
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Antonyms: |
probity |
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| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
Antonyms: |
fairness, frankness, honesty, openness, scrupulousness, sincerity, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | turpitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depravity |
Synonyms: |
baseness, corruption, criminality, debasement, debauchery, degradation, evil, immorality, improbity, lewdness, licentiousness, perversion, sinfulness, vice, viciousness, vileness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | unfaithfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infidelity |
Synonyms: |
apostasy, bad faith, defection, dereliction, disloyalty, fickleness, improbity, inconstancy, perfidy, recreancy, treachery, treason |
Antonyms: |
faithfulness, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | crookedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
Synonyms: |
corruptness, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, improbity, shadiness, underhandedness, unlawfulness |
| Main Entry: | indirection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | shadiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | shiftiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
| Main Entry: | slyness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirection |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud*, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |