viciousness &c adj.; 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 &c (malevolence)
907; corruption &c (debasement) 659; knavery &c (improbity) 940 [Obs.];
profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.
infirmity; weakness &c adj.; 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 [It].
fault, crime; criminality &c (guilt) 947.
sinner &c 949.
[Resorts] brothel &c 961; gambling house &c 621; joint [Slang],
opium den, shooting gallery, crack house.
V. be vicious &c adj.; 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 &c 944; take a wrong
course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.
render vicious &c adj.; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt &c
(degrade) 659.
Adj. vicious; sinful; sinning &c v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral,
unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous†, undutiful.
unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores [Lat.],
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 &c 907;
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 &c (guilty) 947.
unjustifiable; indefensible, inexcusable; inexpiable,
unpardonable, irremissible†.
weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing,
degrading.
Adv. wrong; sinfully &c adj.; without excuse.
Int. O tempora!†, O mores!,
Phr. alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Vergil]; genus est mortis male
vivere [Lat.] [Ovid]; mala mens malus animus [Lat.] [Terence]; nemo
repente fuit turpissimus [Lat.]; the trail of the serpent is over them
all [Moore]; to sanction vice and hunt decorum down [Bryon].