V. be inexpedient, come amiss,
embarrass, put to inconvenience, pay too dear for one's whistle
Adj. inexpedient, undesirable,
unadvisable,
inadvisable, objectionable, inapt,
ineligible,
inadmissible, inconvenient,
incommodious,
discommodious,
disadvantageous, inappropriate, unfit, ill-contrived, ill-advised, unsatisfactory, unprofitable &c, unsubservient,
inopportune, out of place, in the wrong place, improper,
unseemly,
clumsy,
awkward,
cumbrous,
cumbersome,
lumbering,
unwieldy,
hulky,
unmanageable, impedient, unnecessary
Phr. it will never do
N. ugliness,
deformity,
inelegance, acomia, disfigurement, want of symmetry,
inconcinnity,
distortion,
squalor, forbidding countenance, vinegar aspect, hanging look, wry face, "spretae injuria formae",
eyesore, object,
witch,
hag, figure, sight,
fright,
monster, dog, woofer, pig,
octopus,
specter,
scarecrow, harridan|, satyr|,
toad,
monkey,
baboon, caliban,
aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum"
V. be ugly, look ill, grin horribly a ghastly smile, make faces, render ugly,
deface, disfigure, defigure|,
distort,
blemish, soil
Adj. ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey, plain, bald (unadorned) 849, homely, ordinary, unornamental, inartistic, unsightly,
unseemly, uncomely, unlovely, unshapely, sightless, seemless, not fit to be seen,
unbeauteous, unbeautiful,
beautiless, semibeautiful, shapeless,
misshapen, misproportioned,
monstrous,
gaunt,
dumpy, curtailed of its fair proportions, ill-made, ill- shaped, ill-proportioned,
crooked, hard featured, hard visaged,
ill-favored,
hard-favored,
evil-favored,
ill-looking,
unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing, graceless, inelegant, ungraceful, ungainly,
uncouth, stiff,
rugged, rough, gross, rude,
awkward,
clumsy,
slouching,
rickety,
gawky,
lumping,
lumpish,
lumbering,
hulky,
hulking,
unwieldy,
squalid,
haggard,
grim, grim faced, grim visaged,
grisly,
ghastly, ghost like, death like,
cadaverous,
grewsome,
gruesome,
frightful,
hideous,
odious,
uncanny,
forbidding, repellant,
repulsive,
repugnant,
grotesque,
bizarre, grody, grody to the max,
horrid,
horrible,
shocking, foul,
dingy,
gaudy, disfigured, discolored
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 N. undueness, malum # prohibitum, impropriety,
illegality, falseness, emptiness of title, invalidity of title,
illegitimacy, loss of right,
disfranchisement,
forfeiture,
usurpation,
tort,
violation, breach,
encroachment,
presumption, assumption,
seizure, stretch,
exaction, imposition, lion's share,
usurper, pretender
V. be undue, not be due,
infringe,
encroach, trench on, exact,
arrogate, arrogate to oneself, give an inch and take an ell, stretch a point, strain a point,
usurp,
violate, do violence to,
disfranchise,
disentitle,
disqualify,
invalidate,
relax,
misbehave, misbecome
Adj. undue, unlawful, unconstitutional,
illicit, unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed, unsanctioned, unjustified, unentitled, disentitled, unqualified, disqualified, unprivileged, unchartered,
illegitimate,
bastard,
spurious,
supposititious, false,
usurped,
tortious, undeserved, unmerited,
unearned, unfulfilled,
forfeited,
disfranchised, improper, unmeet, unfit,
unbefitting,
unseemly, unbecoming, misbecoming, seemless, contra bonos mores, not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of,
preposterous,
pretentious,
would-be Phr. filius nullius
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.]