| 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: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | baseness |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, decadence, degeneration, degradation, depravity, evil, immorality, impurity, infamy, iniquity, looseness, lubricity, perversion, profligacy, sinfulness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vulgarity, wickedness |
Antonyms: |
decency, goodness, honor, kindness, wholesomeness |
| Main Entry: | disgrace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of shame; bad reputation |
Synonyms: |
abasement, abuse, baseness, black eye, blemish, blur, brand, comedown, contempt, contumely, corruption, culpability, debasement, debasing, defamation, degradation, derision, disbarment, discredit, disesteem, disfavor, dishonor, disrepute, disrespect, humbling, humiliation, ignominy, ill repute, infamy, ingloriousness, meanness, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, pollution, prostitution, put-down, reproach, scandal, scorn, slander, slight, slur, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, turpitude, venality |
Antonyms: |
esteem, exaltation, honor, respect |
| Main Entry: | enormity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horribleness |
Synonyms: |
abomination, atrociousness, atrocity, crime, depravity, disgrace, evil, evilness, flagrancy, grossness, heinousness, horror, monstrosity, monstrousness, nefariousness, outrage, outrageousness, rankness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness |
| Notes: | enormity is the quality of extreme wickedness while enormousness is unusual largeness in size or extent |
Antonyms: |
goodness |
| Main Entry: | evil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | badness, immorality; disaster |
Synonyms: |
affliction, baseness, blow, calamity, catastrophe, corruption, crime, criminality, curse, debauchery, depravity, devilry, diablerie, diabolism, harm, hatred, heinousness, hurt, ill, impiety, indecency, infamy, iniquity, injury, knavery, lewdness, licentiousness, looseness, malevolence, malignity, meanness, mischief, misery, misfortune, obscenity, outrage, pain, perversity, ruin, sin, sinfulness, sorrow, suffering, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, woe, wrong, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
good, goodness, morality, virtue |
| Main Entry: | scandal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public embarrassment |
Synonyms: |
aspersion, backbiting, backstabbing, belittlement, calumny, crime, defamation, depreciation, detraction, dirty linen, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disparagement, disrepute, dynamite, eavesdropping, gossip, hearsay, idle rumor, ignominy, infamy, mud, obloquy, opprobrium, reproach, rumor, scorcher, shame, sin, skeleton in closet, slander, tale, talk, turpitude, wrongdoing |
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | offense, sin |
Synonyms: |
abuse, bad deed, bias, blunder, crime, cruelty, damage, delinquency, discourtesy, error, evil, faux pas, favor, foul play, grievance, harm, hurt, immorality, imposition, indecency, inequity, inhumanity, iniquity, injury, injustice, insult, libel, malevolence, miscarriage, misdeed, misdemeanor, misdoing, mistake, oppression, persecution, prejudice, sinfulness, slander, slight, spite, tort, transgression, trespass, turpitude, unfairness, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrongdoing |
Antonyms: |
goodness, kindness, right, virtue |
| Main Entry: | evilness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wickedness |
Synonyms: |
depravity, iniquity, turpitude |
Antonyms: |
goodness |
| Main Entry: | villainy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wickedness |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, baseness, depravity, knavery, rascality, scoundrelism, turpitude, viciousness, vileness |
| Main Entry: | flagitiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
Synonyms: |
atrocity, depravity, immorality, shamefulness, turpitude, unrighteousness, villainousness, villainy, wickedness |