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virtuous &c 944; unreproved † , unimpeached, unreproached † .<br />

Adv. innocently &c adj.; with clean hands; with a clear conscience, with a safe<br />

conscience.<br />

Phr. murus aeneus conscientia sana [Horace].<br />

947. Guilt -- N. guilt, guiltiness; culpability; criminality, criminousness † ; deviation from<br />

rectitude &c (improbity) 940 [Obs.]; sinfulness &c (vice) 945.<br />

misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error,<br />

transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas [Fr.],<br />

peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break! [U.S.], capital crime,<br />

delictum [Lat.].<br />

offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance,<br />

malversation; crime, felony.<br />

enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; deed without a name [Macbeth].<br />

corpus delicti.<br />

Adj. guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable † , in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible,<br />

blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable † ; weighed in the balance and found wanting;<br />

exceptionable.<br />

Adv. in flagrante delicto [Lat.]; red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie<br />

jar.<br />

Phr. cui prodest scelus in fecit [Lat.] [Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes [Lat.]<br />

[Horace]; O would the deed were good! [Richard II]; responsibility prevents crimes se<br />

judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Lat.] [Juvenal]; so many laws argues so many sins<br />

[Paradise Lost].<br />

948. Good Man -- N. good man, honest man, worthy.<br />

good woman, perfect lady, Madonna.<br />

model, paragon &c (perfection) 650; good example; hero, heroine, demigod, seraph,<br />

angel; innocent &c 946; saint &c (piety) 987; benefactor &c 912; philanthropist &c 910;<br />

Aristides † ; noble liver † , pattern.<br />

brick [Slang], trump [Slang], gem, jewel, good fellow, prince, diamond in the rough,<br />

rough diamond, ugly duckling † .<br />

salt of the earth; one in ten thousand; one in a million; a gentleman and a scholar;<br />

pillar of society, pillar of the community, a man among men.<br />

Phr. si sic omnes! [Lat.]<br />

949. Bad Man -- N. bad man, wrongdoer, worker of iniquity; evildoer &c 913; sinner;<br />

the wicked &c 945; bad example.<br />

villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash † , caitiff † ; wretch, reptile, viper, serpent,<br />

cockatrice, basilisk, urchin; tiger † , monster; devil &c (demon) 980; devil incarnate;<br />

demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell † .<br />

bad woman, jade, Jezebel.<br />

scamp, scapegrace, rip, runagate, ne'er-do-well, reprobate, scalawag, scallawag.<br />

rou_e [Fr.], rake; Sadist; skeesicks [Slang], skeezix [U.S.]; limb; one who has sold<br />

himself to the devil, fallen angel, ame damnee [Fr.], vaurien † , mauvais sujet [Fr.], loose

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