V. transgress,
surpass, pass, go beyond, go by, show in front, come to the front, shoot ahead of, steal a march upon, steal a gain upon, overstep, overpass, overreach,
overgo,
override,
overleap,
overjump,
overskip,
overlap, overshoot the mark, outstrip,
outleap, outjump,
outgo, outstep, outrun,
outride, outrival,
outdo, beat, beat hollow, distance, leave in the lurch, leave in the rear, throw into the shade, exceed,
transcend,
surmount,
soar,
encroach,
trespass,
infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench on, strain, stretch a point, strain a point, cross the rubicon
Adv. beyond the mark,
ahead N. nonobservance,
evasion, # inobservance, failure,
omission, neglect,
laches,
laxity,
informality,
infringement, infraction,
violation,
transgression,
piracy, retraction,
retractation,
repudiation,
nullification,
protest,
forfeiture,
lawlessness, disobedience, bad faith
V. fail, neglect,
omit,
elude,
evade, give the go-by to, set aside,
ignore, shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to,
infringe,
transgress,
violate,
pirate, break, trample under foot, do violence to, drive a coach and six through, discard,
protest,
repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught,
nullify, declare null and void,
cancel, retract, go back from, be off,
forfeit, go from one's word,
palter, stretch a point, strain a point
N. dereliction of duty, fault, sin,
non-observance, non-performance, neglect,
relaxation, infraction,
violation,
transgression, failure,
evasion, dead letter
V. violate, break, break through,
infringe, set aside, set at naught, encroach upon, trench upon, trample on, trample under foot, slight, neglect,
evade,
renounce,
forswear,
repudiate, wash one's hands of, escape,
transgress, fail, call to account
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"
