misbeha'vyor. Ill conduct; improper, rude or uncivil behavior.
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Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.
Vulgarity Roget’s Thesaurus §851
N. vulgarity, vulgarism, barbarism, vandalism, gothicism|, mauvis gout, bad taste, gaucherie, awkwardness, want of tact, ill-breeding, courseness, indecorum, misbehavior, lowness, homeliness, low life, mauvais ton, rusticity, boorishness, brutality, rowdyism, blackguardism, ribaldry, slang, bad joke, mauvais plaisanterie, gaudiness, tawdriness, false ornament, finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant, baroque, rococo, rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub, clown, goth, vandal, boeotian, snob, cad, gent, parvenu, frump, dowdy, slattern
V. be vulgar, misbehave, talk shop, smell of the shop
Adj. in bad taste vulgar, unrefined, coarse, indecorous, ribald, gross, unseemly, unbeseeming, unpresentable, contra bonos mores, ungraceful, dowdy, slovenly, ungenteel, shabby genteel, low, common, hoi polloi, uncourtly, uncivil, ill bred, ill mannered, underbred, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unladylike, unfeminine, wild, wild as an unbacked colt, untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491, unkempt, uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth, plebeian, incondite, heavy, rude, awkward, homely, homespun, home bred, provincial, countrified, rustic, boorish, clownish, savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish, barbarous, barbaric, gothic, unclassical, doggerel, heathenish, tramontane, outlandish, uncultivated, bohemian, obsolete, unfashionable, newfangled, odd, particular, affected, meretricious, extravagant, monstrous, horrid, shocking, gaudy, tawdry, overornamented, baroque, rococo, bedizened, tricked out, gingerbread, obtrusive
Discourtesy Roget’s Thesaurus §895
N. discourtesy, ill breeding, ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners, insuavity, uncourteousness, rusticity, inurbanity, illiberality, incivility displacency, disrespect, procacity, impudence, barbarism, barbarity, misbehavior, brutality, blackguardism, conduct unbecoming a gentleman, grossieret, brusquerie, vulgarity, &c. 851, churlishness, spinosity, perversity, moroseness, sternness, austerity, moodishness, captiousness, cynicism, tartness, acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity, scowl, black looks, frown, short answer, rebuff, hard words, contumely, unparliamentary language, personality, bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast, unlicked cub, frump, crosspatch, saucebox, crooked stick, grizzly
V. be -rude, insult, treat with discourtesy, take a name in vain, make bold with, make free with, take a liberty, stare out of countenance, ogle, point at, put to the blush, cut, turn one's back upon, turn on one's heel, give the cold shoulder, keep at a distance, keep at arm's length, look cool upon, look coldly upon, look black upon, show the door to, send away with a flea in the ear, lose one's temper, sulk a, frown, scowl, glower, pout, snap, snarl, growl, render rude &c. ad, brutalize, brutify
Adj. discourteous, uncourteous, uncourtly, ill-bred, ill- mannered, ill-behaved, ill-conditioned, unbred, unmannerly, unmannered, impolite, unpolite, unpolished, uncivilized, ungenteel, ungentleman- like, ungentlemanly, unladylike, blackguard, vulgar, dedecorous, foul-mouthed foul-spoken, abusive, uncivil, ungracious, unceremonious, cool, pert, forward, obtrusive, impudent, rude, saucy, precocious, repulsive, uncomplaisant, unaccommodating, unneighborly, ungallant, inaffable, ungentle, ungainly, rough, rugged, bluff, blunt, gruff, churlish, boorish, bearish, brutal, brusque, stern, harsh, austere, cavalier, taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious, snarling, surly, surly as a bear, perverse, grim, sullen, peevish, untactful, impolitic, undiplomatic, artless, adv, discourteously, with discourtesy, with a bad grace
Guilt Roget’s Thesaurus §947
N. guilt, guiltiness, culpability, criminality, criminousness, deviation from rectitude, sinfulness, misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression, dereliction, delinquency, indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo, flaw, blot, omission, failing, failure, break, bad break |, [U.S.], capital crime, delictum, offense, trespass, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, malefaction, malfeasance, malversation, crime, felony, enormity, atrocity, outrage, deadly sin, mortal sin, "deed without a name", corpus delicti
Adj. guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable, weighed in the balance and found wanting, exceptionable
Adv. in flagrante delicto, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar
Phr. cui prodest scelus in fecit, culpam paena premit comes, "o would the deed were good!", "responsibility prevents crimes" se judice nemo nocens absolvitur, "so many laws argues so many sins"
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