| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A wicked act or wicked behavior: crime, deviltry, diablerie, evil, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, peccancy, sin, wickedness, wrongdoing. See RIGHT. 2. That which is morally bad or objectionable: evil, iniquity, peccancy, sin, wickedness. See RIGHT. 3. An act that is not just: disservice, inequity, injustice, raw deal. Law : injury. See LAW, RIGHT. 4. Lack of justice: inequity, iniquity, injustice, unfairness, unjustness. See LAW, RIGHT. | | VERB: | To do a wrong to; treat unjustly: aggrieve, oppress, outrage, persecute. See RIGHT. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Not in accordance with what is usual or expected: amiss, astray, awry, sour. See SURPRISE, THRIVE. 2. Containing an error or errors: erroneous, fallacious, false, inaccurate, incorrect, mistaken, off, unsound, untrue. Idioms: all wet, in error, off base, off (or wide of) the mark. See CORRECT. 3. Morally objectionable: bad, black, evil, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful, vicious, wicked. See RIGHT. 4. Devoid of truth: counterfactual, false, specious, spurious, truthless, untrue, untruthful. See TRUE. 5. Afflicted with or exhibiting irrationality and mental unsoundness: brainsick, crazy, daft, demented, disordered, distraught, dotty, insane, lunatic, mad, maniac, maniacal, mentally ill, moonstruck, off, touched, unbalanced, unsound. Informal : bonkers, cracked, daffy, gaga, loony. Slang : bananas, batty, buggy, cuckoo, fruity, loco, nuts, nutty, screwy, wacky. Chiefly British : crackers. Law : non compos mentis. Idioms: around the bend, crazy as a loon, mad as a hatter, not all there, nutty as a fruitcake, off (or out of) one's head, off one's rocker, of unsound mind, out of one's mind, sick in the head, stark raving mad. See SANE. | | ADVERB: | Not in the right way or on the proper course: afield, amiss, astray, awry. See THRIVE.
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