Error Roget’s Thesaurus §495 N. error,
fallacy, misconception,
misapprehension, misstanding, misunderstanding, inexactness,
laxity, misconstruction,
miscomputation,
non sequitur, mis-statement, mis-report, mumpsimus, mistake, miss, fault,
blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight, misprint,
erratum,
corrigendum, slip,
blot,
flaw, loose thread,
trip,
stumble,
botchery, slip of the tongue, slip of the lip, freudian slip, slip of the pen, lapsus linguae, clerical error, bull, haplography,
illusion,
delusion,
snare, false impression, false idea,
bubble, self- decit,
self-deception, mists of error, heresy,
hallucination, false light, dream,
fable,
bias, misleading
V. be erroneous, cause error, mislead, misguide, lead astray, lead into error,
beguile,
misinform,
delude, give a false impression, give a false idea,
falsify, misstate,
deceive, lie,
err, be -in error, be mistaken, be deceived, mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself, fall into error, lie under error, labor under an error, be in the wrong,
blunder,
misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand,
misreckon, miscount,
miscalculate, play at cross purposes, be at cross purposes,
trip,
stumble, lose oneself, go astray, fail, be in the wrong box, take the wrong sow by the ear, put the saddle on the wrong horse, reckon without one's host, take the shadow for the substance, dream
Adj. erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth,
fallacious,
apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless, unsubstantial,
heretical, unsound,
illogical, inexact, unexact inaccurate, incorrect, indefinite,
illusive,
illusory,
delusive,
mock, ideal,
spurious,
deceitful,
perverted,
controvertible,
unsustainable,
unauthenticated, untrustworthy,
exploded,
refuted, discarded, in error, under an error, mistaken,
tripping, out, out in one's reckoning,
aberrant, beside the mark, wide of the mark, wide of the truth, way off, far off,
astray, on a false scent, on the wrong scent, in the wrong box, outside the ballpark, at cross purposes, all in the wrong, all out
Adv. more or less
Phr. errare est humanum, mentis gratissimus error, "on the dubious waves of error tost", "to err is human, to forgive divine", "you lie—under a mistake"
Vice Roget’s Thesaurus §945 N. vice, evil-doing, evil courses,
wrongdoing, wickedness,
viciousness, iniquity,
peccability,
demerit, sin, adam|, old adam, offending adam, immorality, impropriety,
indecorum,
scandal,
laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast,
obliquity,
backsliding,
infamy,
demoralization,
pravity,
depravity,
pollution, hardness of heart,
brutality, corruption,
knavery,
profligacy,
flagrancy,
atrocity,
cannibalism, lesbianism, sadism,
infirmity, weakness, 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, gusto picaresco, fault, crime,
criminality,
sinner,
brothel, gambling house, joint*, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house
V. be vicious, sin, commit sin, do amiss,
err,
transgress, misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself,
misdo,
misbehave, fall,
lapse, slip,
trip,
offend,
trespass, deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue, take a wrong course, go astray, hug a sin, hug a fault, sow one's wild oats, render vicious,
demoralize,
brutalize, corrupt
Adj. vicious, sinful,
sinning, wicked,
iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal,
naughty, incorrect,
unduteous,
undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores,
indecorous, unseemly, improper,
dissolute,
profligate,
scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, 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, hell-born,
demoniacal,
devilish,
fiendish, miscreated,
misbegotten,
demoralized, corrupt,
depraved,
evil-minded, evil-disposed,
ill-conditioned,
malevolent, 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,
unjustifiable,
indefensible,
inexcusable,
inexpiable,
unpardonable,
irremissible, weak,
frail,
lax, infirm, imperfect,
indiscrete,
demoralizing,
degrading Int. o tempora, o mores, phr, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, "the trail of the serpent is over them all", "to sanction vice and hunt decorum down", [Note 1 - Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and to the agent.]
