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#944. Virtue. -- N. virtue

• virtuousness

• morality

• moral

• rectitude

• integrity

• nobleness

• morals

• ethics

• cardinal virtues

• merit

• worth

• desert

• excellence

• credit

• self-control

• (resolution) 60

• self-denial

• well-doing

• good actions

• good behavior

• discharge of duty

• fulfillment of duty

• performance of duty

• well-spent life

• innocence

• 946

• V. be virtuous

• practice virtue

• do one's duty

• fulfill

• one's duty

• perform one's duty

• discharge one's duty

• redeem one's pledge

• keep one's promise

• act well

• act one's part

• fight the good fight;

• acquit oneself well

• command one's passions

• master one's passions

• keep in

• the right path

• set an example

• set a good example

• be on one's good behavior

• be on

• one's best behavior

• Adj. virtuous

• good

• innocent

• meritorious

• deserving

• worthy

• correct

• dutiful

• duteous

• moral

• right

• righteous

• right-

• minded

• well-intentioned

• creditable

• laudable

• commendable

• praiseworthy;

• above all praise

• beyond all praise

• excellent

• admirable

• sterling

• pure

• noble

• exemplary

• matchless

• peerless

• saintly

• saint-like

• heaven-born

• angelic

• seraphic

• godlike

• Adv. virtuously

• e merito[Lat]

• Phr. esse quam videri bonus malebat [Lat][Sallust]

• Schonheit vergeht

• Tugend besteht[Ger]

• "virtue the greatest of all monarchies" [Swift];

• virtus vincit invidiam[Lat]

#945. Vice. -- N. vice

• evil-doing

• evil courses

• wrongdoing;

• wickedness

• viciousness

• iniquity

• demerit;

• sin

• Adam|!

• immorality

• impropriety

• indecorum

• scandal

• laxity

• looseness of

• morals

• want of principle

• want of ballast

• obliquity

• backsliding

• infamy

• demoralization

• depravity

• pollution

• hardness of heart

• brutality

• (malevolence) 90

• 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

• gusto

• picaresco[It]

• fault

• crime

• criminality

• sinner

• [Resorts] brothel

• gambling house

• joint*

• opium den

• shooting gallery

• crack house

• V. be vicious

• sin

• commit sin

• do amiss

• err

• transgress;

• forget oneself

• misconduct oneself

• 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

• 659

• Adj. vicious[1]

• sinful

• sinning

• wicked

• iniquitous

• immoral

• unrighteous

• wrong

• criminal

• naughty

• incorrect

• undutiful

• unprincipled

• lawless

• disorderly

• contra bonos mores[Lat]

• indecorous

• unseemly

• improper

• dissolute

• profligate

• scampish

• unworthy;

• worthless

• 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

• hell-born

• demoniacal

• devilish

• fiendish

• 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

• weak

• frail

• lax

• infirm

• imperfect

• indiscrete

• demoralizing

• degrading

• Adv. wrong

• sinfully

• without excuse

• 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]

• [Note 1 - Most of these adjectives are applicable both to the act and to

• the agent.]

#946. Innocence. -- N. innocence

• guiltlessness

• incorruption

• impeccability

• clean hands

• clear conscience

• mens sibi conscia recti [Lat][Vergil]

• innocent

• lamb

• dove

• V. be innocent

• nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa

• [Lat][Horace]

• acquit

• exculpate

• Adj. innocent

• not guilty

• guiltless

• faultless

• sinless

• stainless

• bloodless

• spotless

• clear

• immaculate

• rectus in

• curia[Lat]

• unspotted

• unblemished

• unerring

• undefiled

• Saturnian

• Arcadian

• inculpable

• unblamed

• blameless

• above suspicion

• irreproachable

• unexceptionable

• unobjectionable

• unimpeachable

• venial

• harmless

• inoffensive

• innocuous

• dove-like

• lamb-

• like

• pure

• harmless as doves

• innocent as a lamb

• innocent as the babe

• unborn

• "more sinned against than sinning" [Lear]

• virtuous

• unimpeached

• Adv. innocently

• with clean hands

• with a clear conscience

• with a safe conscience

#947. Guilt. -- N. guilt

• guiltiness

• culpability

• criminality

• deviation from rectitude

• sinfulness

• misconduct

• misbehavior

• misdoing

• misdeed

• malpractice

• fault

• sin

• error

• transgression

• dereliction

• delinquency

• indiscretion

• lapse

• slip

• trip

• peccadillo

• flaw

• blot

• omission

• failing

• failure;

• break

• bad break |![U.S.]

• capital crime

• delictum[Lat]

• offense

• trespass

• misdemeanor

• misfeasance

• misprision

• malefaction

• malfeasance

• malversation

• crime

• felony

• enormity

• atrocity

• outrage

• deadly sin

• mortal sin

• "deed without a

• name" [Macbeth]

• corpus delicti

• Adj. guilty

• to blame

• culpable

• in fault

• at fault

• censurable

• reprehensible

• blameworthy

• uncommendable

• weighed in the balance and found wanting

• exceptionable

• Adv. in flagrante delicto[Lat]

• red-handed

• in the very act

• with one's

• hand in the cookie jar

• Phr. cui prodest scelus in fecit [Lat][Seneca]

• culpam paena premit

• comes [Lat][Horace]

• "O would the deed were good!" [Richard II];

• "responsibility prevents crimes" se judice nemo nocens absolvitur

• [Lat][Burke;][Juvenal]

• "so many laws argues so many sins" [Paradise Lost]

#948. Good Man. -- N. good man

• honest man

• worthy

• good woman

• perfect lady

• Madonna

• model

• paragon

• good example

• hero

• heroine

• demigod

• seraph

• angel

• innocent

• saint

• benefactor

• philanthropist

• noble liver|!

• pattern

• brick*

• trump*

• gem

• jewel

• good fellow

• prince

• diamond in the rough

• rough diamond

• ugly duckling|!

• salt of the earth

• one in ten thousand

• one in a million

• a gentleman

• and a scholar

• pillar of society

• pillar of the community

• a man among men

• Phr. si sic omnes[Lat]!

#949. Bad Man. -- N. bad man

• wrongdoer

• worker of iniquity

• evildoer

• sinner

• the wicked

• bad example

• villain

• rascal

• scoundrel

• miscreant

• caitiff|!;

• wretch

• reptile

• viper

• serpent

• cockatrice

• basilisk

• urchin

• tiger|!

• monster

• devil

• devil incarnate

• demon in human shape

• Nana

• Sahib

• hellhound

• hellcat

• bad woman

• jade

• Jezebel

• scamp

• scapegrace

• rip

• runagate

• ne'er-do-well

• reprobate

• scalawag

• scallawag

• rake

• Sadist

• limb

• one who has sold himself to the devil

• fallen angel

• loose fish

• sad dog

• rounder*

• lost

• sheep

• black sheep

• castaway

• recreant

• defaulter

• prodigal

• rough

• rowdy

• hooligan

• tough

• ugly customer

• mean mother [coll.]

• ruffian

• bully

• meanie [jocular]

• Jonathan Wild

• hangman

• incendiary

• arsonist

• fire bug [U.S.]

• thief

• murderer

• terrorist

• [person who violates the criminal law] culprit

• delinquent

• crook

• hoodlum

• hood

• criminal

• thug

• malefactor

• offender

• perpetrator

• perp

• [coll.]

• disorderly person

• misdemeanant[Law]

• outlaw

• scofflaw

• vandal;

• felon[convicted criminal]

• convict

• prisoner

• inmate

• jail bird

• ticket of

• leave man

• multiple offender

• blackguard

• loafer

• sneak

• rapscallion

• mean wretch

• varlet

• ame-de-

• cur

• dog

• hound|!

• whelp|!

• mongrel|!

• lown|!

• loon

• outcast

• vagabond

• rogue

• scum

• of the earth

• riffraff

#950. Penitence. -- N. penitence

• contrition

• compunction

• repentance

• remorse

• regret

• self-reproach

• self-reproof

• self-accusation

• self-condemnation

• self-

• humiliation

• stings of conscience

• pangs of conscience

• qualms of

• conscience

• twinge of conscience

• twitch of

• conscience

• touch of conscience

• voice of conscience

• compunctious

• acknowledgment

• confession

• apology

• recantation

• penance

• resipiscence|!

• awakened conscience

• deathbed repentance

• locus paenitentiae[Lat]

• stool of repentance

• penitent

• repentant

• Magdalen

• prodigal son

• "a sadder and a wiser

• man" [Coleridge]

• V. repent

• be sorry for

• be penitent

• rue

• regret

• think better of

• recant

• knock under

• plead

• guilty

• sing miserere[Lat]

• sing de profundis[Lat]

• cry peccavi

• own

• oneself in the wrong

• acknowledge

• confess

• (disclose) 5

• humble

• oneself

• beg pardon

• turn over a new leaf

• put on the

• new man

• turn from sin

• reclaim

• repent in sackcloth and ashes

• (do

• penance)

• learn by experience

• Adj. penitent

• repenting

• repentant

• contrite

• conscience-

• smitten

• conscience-stricken

• self-accusing

• self-convicted

• penitential

• penitentiary

• reclaimed

• reborn

• not hardened;

• Adv. mea culpa

• Phr. peccavi

• erubuit[Lat]

• salva res est [Lat][Terence]

• Tu l'as

• Georges Dandin

• "and wet his grave with my repentant tears"

• [Richard III]

#951. Impenitence. -- N. impenitence

• lack of contrition

• hardness of heart

• seared conscience

• induration

• obduracy

• V. be impenitent

• steel the heart

• harden the heart

• die

• game

• die and make no sign

• die unshriven

• die without benefit of clergy

• Adj. impenitent

• uncontrite

• obdurate

• hard

• hardened

• seared

• recusant

• unrepentant

• relentless

• remorseless

• graceless

• lost

• incorrigible

• irreclaimable

• unreconstructed

• unregenerate

• unreformed

• unatoned

#952. Atonement. -- N. atonement

• reparation

• compromise

• composition;

• compensation

• quittance

• quits

• expiation

• redemption

• reclamation

• conciliation

• propitiation

• indemnification

• redress

• amends

• apology

• satisfaction

• peace offering

• sin offering

• burnt offering

• scapegoat

• sacrifice

• penance

• fasting

• maceration

• sackcloth and ashes

• white sheet

• shrift

• flagellation

• purgation

• purgatory

• V. atone

• atone for

• expiate

• propitiate

• make amends

• make good;

• reclaim

• redeem

• repair

• ransom

• absolve

• purge

• shrive

• do penance

• stand

• in a white sheet

• repent in sackcloth and ashes

• wear a hairshirt

• set one's house in order

• wipe off old scores

• make matters up

• pay

• the forfeit

• pay the penalty

• apologize

• beg pardon

• give satisfaction;

• come down on one's knees

• fall down on one's knees

• down on one's marrow

• bones

• 4. MORAL PRACTICE

#953. Temperance. -- N. temperance

• moderation

• sobriety

• soberness

• forbearance

• abnegation

• self-denial

• self-restraint

• self-control

• (resolution) 604

• frugality

• vegetarianism

• teetotalism

• total abstinence

• abstinence

• abstemiousness

• prohibition

• system of Pythagoras

• system

• of Cornaro

• Pythagorism

• Stoicism

• vegetarian

• Pythagorean

• teetotaler

• abstainer

• designated driver

• hydropot|!

• V. be temperate

• abstain

• forbear

• refrain

• deny oneself

• spare

• swear off

• know when one has had enough

• know one's limit

• take the pledge

• go on the wagon

• Adj. temperate

• moderate

• sober

• frugal

• sparing

• abstemious

• abstinent

• within compass

• measured

• on the wagon

• on the water wagon

• [re locations where alcoholic beverages are prohibited] dry

• Pythagorean

• vegetarian

• teetotal

• Phr. appetitus rationi obediant [Lat][Cicero]

• l'abstenir pour jouir

• trahit sua quemque voluptas

• [Lat][Vergil]

#954. Intemperance. -- N. intemperance

• sensuality

• animalism

• carnality

• pleasure

• effeminacy

• silkiness

• luxury

• luxuriousness

• lap of pleasure

• lap of luxury

• free living

• indulgence

• high living

• wild living

• self-

• indulgence

• voluptuousness

• epicurism

• epicureanism

• sybaritism;

• drug habit

• dissipation

• licentiousness

• debauchery

• revels

• revelry

• debauch

• carousal

• jollification

• drinking bout

• wassail

• saturnalia

• orgies

• excess

• too much

• Circean cup

• [drugs of abuse: list] bhang

• hashish

• marijuana

• pot [coll.]

• hemp

• [coll.]

• grass [coll.]

• opium

• cocaine

• morphine

• heroin

• LSD[abbr]

• lysergic acid diethylamide[Chem][Chem]

• phencyclidine

• angel dust

• PCP;

• barbiturates

• amphetamines

• speed [coll.]

• V. be intemperate

• indulge

• exceed

• live well

• live high

• live high on the fat of the land

• live it up

• live high on the hog

• give a

• loose to indulgence

• wallow in voluptuousness

• plunge into

• dissipation

• revel

• rake

• live hard

• run riot

• sow one's wild oats

• slake one's

• appetite

• slake one's thirst

• swill

• pamper

• sensual

• self-indulgent;

• voluptuous

• luxurious

• licentious

• wild

• dissolute

• rakish

• fast

• debauched

• brutish

• swinish

• piggish

• Paphian

• Epicurean

• Sybaritical

• bred in the lap of luxury

• nursed in

• the lap of luxury

• indulged

• pampered

• full-fed

• high-fed

• Phr. "being full of supper and distempering draughts" [Othello]

#954a. Sensualist. -- N. Sybarite

• voluptuary

• Sardanaphalus

• man of

• pleasure

• carpet knight

• epicure

• epicurean

• gourmet

• gourmand

• pig

• hog;

• votary of Epicurus

• swine of Epicurus

• sensualist

• Heliogabalus

• free

• liver

• hard liver

• libertine

• hedonist

#955. Asceticism. -- N. asceticism

• puritanism

• cynicism|!

• austerity

• total abstinence

• mortification

• maceration

• sackcloth and ashes

• flagellation

• penance

• fasting

• martyrdom

• ascetic

• anchorite

• martyr

• hermit

• puritan

• cynic

• yogi

• Adj. ascetic

• austere

• puritanical

• cynical

• over-religious

• acerbic