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].
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 —


