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  • 21mischief — I noun annoyance, criminality, cruelty, damage, damnum, danger, detriment, devilment, deviltry, disservice, evil, evil conduct, fault, foul play, frolicsomeness, harm, harmful action, hurt, ill consequence, impishness, incommodum, infliction,… …

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  • 22misconduct — mis·con·duct /mis kän dəkt/ n: intentional or wanton wrongful but usu. not criminal behavior: as a: deliberate or wanton violation of standards of conduct by a government official b: wrongful behavior (as adultery) by a spouse that leads to the… …

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  • 23wrong — 1 n 1: a violation of the rights of another; esp: tort 2: something (as conduct, practices, or qualities) contrary to justice, goodness, equity, or law the difference between right and wrong wrong 2 vt: to do a wrong to …

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  • 24deviation from rectitude — I noun abuse, bad faith, bad repute, blame, corruption, crime, disgrace, dishonor, guilt, malfeasance, misconduct, misdoing, misfeasance, misprision II index abuse (corrupt practice), attaint, bad faith, bad repute …

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  • 25immorality — I noun atrocity, bad repute, carnality, concupiscence, contamination, corruption, criminality, delinquency, demoralization, depravity, dissoluteness, evil, indecency, iniquity, knavery, lechery, lewdness, licentiousness, loose morals, misdoing,… …

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  • 26misdeed — I noun abomination, atrocity, bad behavior, blunder, crime, cruel act, culpable omission, delict, delictum, delinquency, dereliction, dutilessness, evil deed, fault, felony, guilty act, illegality, improper behavior, impropriety, infamous conduct …

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  • 27transgression — I noun abuse, breach, contravention, crime, delictum, delinquency, dereliction, disobedience, encroachment, error, fault, guilty act, illegal action, illegality, infraction, infringement, iniquity, misbehavior, misconduct, misdeed, misdoing,… …

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  • 28wrong — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. immoral (see wrong); mistaken, unfactual; unsuitable, improper. See error, disagreement. n. evil, harm, injury. See wrong, malevolence. II Deviation from moral right Nouns 1. wrong, wrongfulness …

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  • 29misdo — [mis do͞o′] vt. misdid, misdone, misdoing [ME misdoen < OE misdon: see MIS 1 & DO1] to do wrongly vi. Obs. to do evil misdoer n. misdoing n …

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  • 30boner — oner n. 1. an embarrassing mistake. Syn: blunder, blooper, bungle, foul up, flub, botch, boo boo, misdoing. [WordNet 1.5] 2. one who bones food. [PJC] …

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