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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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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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