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violation - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: violation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: breach; breaking of the law
Synonyms: abuse, break, breaking, encroachment, infraction, infringement, misbehavior, misdemeanor, negligence, offense, rupture, transgression, trespass, wrong, contravention, illegality, nonobservance, transgressing, trespassing, violating
Antonyms: obedience, observance
Main Entry: violation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rape, defilement
Synonyms: assault, blasphemy, debasement, defacement, degradation, desecration, destruction, devastation, dishonor, invasion, outrage, pollution, rapine, ruin, sacrilege, defacing, mistreatment, profanation, ravishment, spoliation
Main Entry: assault
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: attack
Synonyms: advance, aggression, charge, incursion, invasion, offensive, onset, onslaught, rape, storm, strike, violation, storming
Notes: to assail a task is to approach it with the intent of mastering it, from Latin salire 'to leap'; assault is also based on this word and assail and assault can be synonyms
assault is an attempt or threat to do physical harm while battery is unjustified application of force; assault and battery is carrying out of threatened physical harm or violence
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
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
Antonyms: good deed, kindness
Main Entry: disloyalty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unfaithfulness
Synonyms: deceitfulness, disaffection, double-dealing, faithlessness, falsity, infidelity, sedition, treachery, treason, violation, apostasy, bad faith, betrayal of trust, breach of trust, breaking of faith, falseness, inconstancy, perfidiousness, perfidy, recreancy, seditiousness, subversive activity, untrueness
Antonyms: faithfulness, loyalty, trueness, trustworthiness
Main Entry: disobedience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: misbehavior; noncompliance with rules
Synonyms: defiance, dereliction, disregard, infraction, infringement, insubordination, mutiny, neglect, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, sabotage, sedition, strike, stubbornness, transgression, violation, indiscipline, insubmission, insurgence, intractableness, nonobservance, perversity, recalcitrance, refractoriness, unruliness, waywardness
Antonyms: behavior, obedience, observance, submission
Main Entry: felony
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: crime
Synonyms: arson, assault, burglary, foul play, murder, offense, rape, robbery, violation, wrongdoing, criminal offense
Main Entry: foul
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: infraction
Synonyms: breach, encroachment, error, faux pas, infringement, offense, slip*, violation
Main Entry: invasion
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: attack, encroachment
Synonyms: aggression, assault, breach, foray, incursion, infraction, infringement, inroad, intrusion, irruption, maraud, offense, offensive, onslaught, raid, transgression, trespass, violation, entrenchment, forced entrance, infiltration, overstepping, usurpation
Antonyms: retreat, surrender, withdrawal
Main Entry: malpractice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: abuse, misconduct
Synonyms: carelessness, dereliction, misbehavior, misdeed, negligence, offense, transgression, violation, malefaction, mismanagement
Main Entry: misdeed/misdemeanor
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sin, crime
Synonyms: dirt*, dirty pool*, fault, infringement, misbehavior, misconduct, miscue, offense, peccadillo, slipup, transgression, trespass, villainy, violation, wrong, wrongdoing, breach of law, criminality, dirty deed, malefaction
Antonyms: goodness
Main Entry: nonconformity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: belief, behavior different from most
Synonyms: breach, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapproval, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, insubordination, lawlessness, negation, noncompliance, objection, opposition, originality, rejection, strangeness, veto, violation, bohemianism, contumaciousness, disapprobation, discordance, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, mutinousness, nonacceptance, nonagreement, nonconsent, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, transgressiveness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness
Antonyms: compliance, conformity, obedience, orthodoxy
Main Entry: rape
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: defilement; a forced sexual assault
Synonyms: abduction, abuse, depredation, despoliation, maltreatment, pillage, plunder, rapine, violation, criminal attack, despoilment, forcible violation, molestation, plundering, spoliation, statutory offense
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: sexual assault
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sex crime
Synonyms: date rape, grope, rape, violation, carnal abuse, forcible intercourse, molestation, ravishment, sex crime, sexual abuse, sexual offense, unlawful sexual intercourse
Main Entry: sin
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: illegal or immoral action
Synonyms: anger, covetousness, crime, damnation, debt, deficiency, demerit, disobedience, envy, error, evil, fault, guilt, imperfection, iniquity, lust, misdeed, offense, peccadillo, pride, shortcoming, sloth, transgression, trespass, vice, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, evil-doing, gluttony, immorality, peccability, peccancy, sinfulness, tort, ungodliness, unrighteousness, veniality, wrongness
Antonyms: behavior, goodness, morality
Main Entry: trespass
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: invasion, offense
Synonyms: breach, crime, delinquency, encroachment, error, fault, infraction, infringement, iniquity, injury, intrusion, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, sin, transgression, violation, wrongdoing, contravention, entrenchment, evildoing, obtrusion, poaching, unlawful entry, wrongful entry
Antonyms: retreat
Main Entry: wrong
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: offense, sin
Synonyms: abuse, bias, blunder, crime, cruelty, damage, delinquency, discourtesy, error, evil, faux pas, favor, foul play, grievance, harm, hurt, imposition, indecency, inequity, inhumanity, iniquity, injury, injustice, insult, libel, malevolence, miscarriage, misdeed, misdemeanor, mistake, oppression, persecution, prejudice, slander, slight, spite, transgression, trespass, turpitude, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrongdoing, bad deed, immorality, misdoing, sinfulness, tort, unfairness
Antonyms: goodness, kindness, right, virtue
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