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.]
N. bad man,
wrongdoer, worker of iniquity,
evildoer,
sinner, the wicked, bad example,
villain,
rascal,
scoundrel,
miscreant, budmash, caitiff|,
wretch,
reptile,
viper, serpent,
cockatrice,
basilisk,
urchin, tiger|,
monster, devil, devil incarnate, demon in human shape,
nana sahib,
hellhound, hellcat,
rakehell, bad woman,
jade,
jezebel,
scamp,
scapegrace,
rip,
runagate, ne'er-do-well,
reprobate,
scalawag, scallawag, rou,
rake, sadist, skeesicks*, skeezix*, limb, one who has sold himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee, vaurien, mauvais sujet, loose fish, sad dog, rounder*, lost sheep, black sheep,
castaway,
recreant,
defaulter,
prodigal, rough,
rowdy, hooligan,
tough, ugly customer, mean mother,
ruffian,
bully, meanie, jonathan wild,
hangman,
incendiary, arsonist, fire bug,
thief, murderer,
terrorist,
culprit,
delinquent,
crook,
hoodlum,
hood, criminal,
thug,
malefactor,
offender,
perpetrator, perp, disorderly person,
misdemeanant, outlaw, scofflaw,
vandal,
felon,
convict, prisoner,
inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man, multiple offender,
blackguard, polisson,
loafer,
sneak,
rapscallion,
rascallion,
cullion, mean wretch,
varlet,
kern, ame-de- boue, drole,
cur, dog, hound|, whelp|, mongrel|, lown|,
loon,
runnion, outcast,
vagabond,
rogue, ronian, scum of the earth,
riffraff, arcades ambo
Int. sirrah, phr, acherontis pabulum, gibier de potence
N. impiety, sin,
irreverence,
profaneness,
profanity,
profanation,
blasphemy,
desecration,
sacrilege,
scoffing,
hypocrisy,
pietism,
cant, pious fraud, lip devotion, lip service, lip reverence, misdevotion,
formalism,
austerity,
sanctimony,
sanctimoniousness,
pharisaism,
precisianism,
sabbatism,
sabbatarianism, odium theologicum,
sacerdotalism,
bigotry, (prejudice) 481, blue laws,
hardening,
backsliding,
declension,
perversion,
reprobation,
sinner,
scoffer,
blasphemer,
sacrilegist, sabbath breaker,
worldling,
hypocrite,
tartufe,
mawworm,
bigot, saint,
pharisee,
sabbatarian,
formalist,
methodist,
puritan,
pietist,
precisian,
religionist,
devotee,
ranter,
fanatic, juramentado, the wicked, the evil, the unjust, the reprobate, sons of men, sons of belial, the wicked one, children of darkness
V. be impious,
profane,
desecrate,
blaspheme,
revile,
scoff,
swear, commit sacrilege,
snuffle, turn up the whites of the eyes,
idolize Adj. impious,
irreligious,
desecrating,
profane,
irreverent,
sacrilegious,
blasphemous, un-hallowed, un-sanctified, un-regenerate,
hardened,
perverted,
reprobate,
hypocritical,
canting,
pietistical,
sanctimonious,
unctuous,
pharisaical, overrighteous, righteous over much,
bigoted,
fanatical,
priest-ridden Adv. under the mask of religion, under the cloak of religion, under the pretense of religion, under the form of religion, under the guise of religion
Phr. giovane santo diavolo vecchio