Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
pollution; hardness of heart; brutality &c. (malevolence) 907; corruption &c. (debasement) 659; knavery &c. (improbity) 940[obs3]; profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.
     infirmity; weakness &c. adj.; weakness of the flesh, frailty,
imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.
     lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den[obs3]; gusto
picaresco[It].
     fault, crime; criminality &c. (guilt) 947.
     sinner &c. 949.
     [Resorts] brothel &c. 961; gambling house &c. 621; joint*, opium den,
shooting gallery, crack house. 
     V. be vicious &c. adj.; sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress;
misdemean oneself[obs3], forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo[obs3], misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue &c. 944; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one’s wild oats.
     render vicious &c. adj.; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt &c. (degrade)
659. 
     Adj. vicious[1]; sinful; sinning &c.v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral,
unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous[obs3], undutiful.
     unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores[Lat],
indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless[obs3]; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.
     base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous|,
felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed. 
     Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian,
fiendlike[obs3], hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.
     miscreated[obs3], misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved.
     evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent &c. 907;
heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity.
     incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for;
culpable, reprehensible &c. (guilty) 947.
     unjustifiable; indefensible, inexcusable; inexpiable, unpardonable,
irremissible[obs3].
     weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing,
degrading. 
     Adv. wrong; sinfully &c. adj.; without excuse. 
     Int.  O tempora[obs3]!  O mores! 
     Phr. alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Lat][obs3][Vergil]; genus est
mortis male vivere [Lat][Ovid]; mala mens malus animus [Lat][Terence]; nemo repente fuit turpissimus[Lat]; “the trail of the serpent is over them all” [Moore]; “to sanction vice and hunt decorum down” [Bryon].

[Note 1 — Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and to the agent.]. —­ p. 330 —­

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