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[Resorts] brothel &c 961; gambling house &c 621; joint [Slang], opium den, shooting<br />

gallery, crack house.<br />

V. be vicious &c adj.; sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress; misdemean oneself † ,<br />

forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo † , misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend,<br />

trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue &c 944; take a<br />

wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats.<br />

render vicious &c adj.; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt &c (degrade) 659.<br />

Adj. vicious; sinful; sinning &c v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong,<br />

criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous † , undutiful.<br />

unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores [Lat.], indecorous, unseemly,<br />

improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless † ; disgraceful,<br />

recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable;<br />

Sadistic.<br />

base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous † , felonious, nefarious,<br />

shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious;<br />

atrocious, incarnate, accursed.<br />

Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike † , hell-born,<br />

demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.<br />

miscreated † , misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved.<br />

evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent &c 907; heartless, graceless,<br />

shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in<br />

iniquity, steeped in iniquity.<br />

incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable,<br />

reprehensible &c (guilty) 947.<br />

unjustifiable; indefensible, inexcusable; inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible † .<br />

weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing, degrading.<br />

Adv. wrong; sinfully &c adj.; without excuse.<br />

Int. O tempora! † , O mores!,<br />

Phr. alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Vergil]; genus est mortis male vivere [Lat.] [Ovid];<br />

mala mens malus animus [Lat.] [Terence]; nemo repente fuit turpissimus [Lat.]; the trail<br />

of the serpent is over them all [Moore]; to sanction vice and hunt decorum down [Bryon].<br />

946. Innocence -- N. innocence; guiltlessness &c adj.; incorruption, impeccability.<br />

clean hands, clear conscience, mens sibi conscia recti [Lat.] [Vergil].<br />

innocent, lamb, dove.<br />

V. be innocent &c adj.; nil conscire sibi nulla pallescere culpa [Lat.] [Horace].<br />

acquit &c 970; exculpate &c (vindicate) 937.<br />

Adj. innocent, not guilty; unguilty † ; guiltless, faultless, sinless, stainless, bloodless,<br />

spotless; clear, immaculate; rectus in curia [Lat.]; unspotted, unblemished, unerring;<br />

undefiled &c 939; unhardened † , Saturnian; Arcadian &c (artless) 703 [Obs.].<br />

inculpable, unculpable † ; unblamed, unblamable † ; blameless, unfallen † , inerrable † ,<br />

above suspicion; irreproachable, irreprovable † , irreprehensible † ; unexceptionable,<br />

unobjectionable, unimpeachable; salvable † ; venial &c 937.<br />

harmless; inoffensive, innoxious † , innocuous; dove-like, lamb-like; pure, harmless as<br />

doves; innocent as a lamb, innocent as the babe unborn; more sinned against than sinning<br />

[Lear].

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