| Main Entry: | criminal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lawless, felonious |
Synonyms: |
bent, caught, corrupt, crooked, culpable, deplorable, dirty, heavy, hung up, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, immoral, indictable, iniquitous, nefarious, off base, out of line, peccant, racket, scandalous, senseless, shady*, smoking gun, unlawful, unrighteous, vicious, villainous, wicked, wildcat, wrong |
Antonyms: |
correct, lawful, legal, moral, right, righteous |
| Main Entry: | impious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not religious |
Synonyms: |
agnostic, apostate, atheistic, blasphemous, canting, contrary, deceitful, defiling, desecrating, desecrative, diabolic, disobedient, disrespectful, godless, hardened, hypocritical, iconoclastic, immoral, iniquitous, irreligious, irreverent, perverted, pietistical, profane, recusant, reprobate, sacrilegious, sanctimonious, satanic, scandalous, sinful, unctuous, undutiful, unethical, unfaithful, ungodly, unhallowed, unholy, unregenerate, unrighteous, unsanctified, wayward, wicked |
Antonyms: |
holy, pious, religious |
| Main Entry: | improper |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vulgar, immoral |
Synonyms: |
blue*, dirty, impolite, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, lewd, malodorous, naughty, risqué, rough, salacious, suggestive, unbecoming, unconventional, unequitable, unethical, ungodly, unjust, unrighteous, unrightful, unseemly, untoward, wrong, wrongful |
Antonyms: |
decent, formal, good, moral, proper, uncorrupt |
| Main Entry: | sinful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, criminal |
Synonyms: |
amiss, bad, base, blamable, blameful, blameworthy, censurable, corrupt, culpable, damnable, demeritorious, depraved, disgraceful, erring, evil, guilty, iniquitous, irreligious, low, morally wrong, reprehensible, reprobate, shameful, ungodly, unholy, unregenerate, unrighteous, vicious, vile, wicked, wrong |
Antonyms: |
honest, moral, righteous, upright |
| Main Entry: | unjust |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not fair |
Synonyms: |
below the belt, biased, fixed*, inequitable, influenced, low-down, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced, shabby*, underhand, undeserved, unfair, unforgivable, unjustified, unmerited, unrighteous, wrong, wrongful |
Antonyms: |
equitable, fair, just, unbiased, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | wicked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt, bad |
Synonyms: |
abandoned, abominable, amoral, arch, atrocious, bad news, base, contemptible, debased, degenerate, depraved, devilish, dissolute, egregious, evil, fiendish, flagitious, foul, gross, guilty, heartless, heinous, immoral, impious, impish, incorrigible, indecent, iniquitous, irreligious, low-down, mean, mischievous, nasty, naughty, nefarious, profane, reprobate, rotten, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, unethical, unprincipled, unrighteous, vicious, vile, villainous, wayward, worthless |
Antonyms: |
decent, good, moral, nice |
| Main Entry: | wrong |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immoral, dishonest |
Synonyms: |
amoral, bad, base, blamable, blameworthy, blasphemous, censurable, corrupt, criminal, crooked, debauched, depraved, dishonorable, dissipated, dissolute, evil, felonious, illegal, illicit, indecent, iniquitous, naughty, profane, profligate, reprehensible, reprobate, risqué, sacrilegious, salacious, shady, sinful, smutty, unethical, unfair, ungodly, unholy, unjust, unlawful, unrighteous, vicious, wanton, wicked, wrongful |
Antonyms: |
decent, good, honest, moral |
| Concept: | Wrong. |
| Category: | 1. Moral obligations |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
wrong; what ought not to be, what should not be; malum in se; unreasonableness, grievance; shame., injustice; unfairness; iniquity, foul play, partiality, leaning; favor, favoritism; nepotism, party spirit; undueness; unlawfulness., robbing Peter to pay Paul; the wolf and the lamb; vice., "a custom more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet].
-verbs
be wrong; cry to heaven for vengeance., do wrong; be inequitable; favor, lean towards; encroach upon, impose upon; reap where one has not sown; give an inch and take an ell; rob Peter to pay Paul.
-adjectives
wrong, wrongful; bad, too bad; unjust, unfair; inequitable, unequitable; unequal, partial, one-sided; injurious., objectionable; unreasonable, unallowable, unwarrantable, unjustifiable; improper, unfit; unjustified; illegal; iniquitous; immoral., in the wrong, in the wrong box.
-adverbs
wrongly
-phrases
it will not do.
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Antonyms: |
right |
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