ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

fish, sad dog; rounder [Slang]; lost sheep, black sheep; castaway, recreant, defaulter;
prodigal &c 818.
rough, rowdy, hooligan, tough, ugly customer, mean mother [Coll.], ruffian, bully,
meanie [Joc.]; Jonathan Wild; hangman.
incendiary, arsonist, fire bug [U.S.].
thief &c 792; murderer, terrorist &c 361.
[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); criminal;
convict, prisoner, inmate, jail bird, ticket of leave man; multiple offender.
blackguard, polisson † , loafer, sneak; rapscallion, rascallion † ; cullion † , mean wretch,
varlet, kern † , ame-de-boue [Fr.], drole † ; cur, dog, hound † , whelp † , mongrel † ; lown † , loon,
runnion † , outcast, vagabond; rogue &c (knave) 941; ronian † ; scum of the earth, riffraff;
Arcades ambo † .
Int. sirrah! † ,
Phr. Acherontis pabulum † ; gibier de potence [Fr.].
950. Penitence -- N. penitence, contrition, compunction, repentance, remorse; regret &c
833.
self-reproach, self-reproof, self-accusation, self-condemnation, self-humiliation; stings
of conscience, pangs of conscience, qualms of conscience, prickings of conscience † ,
twinge of conscience, twitch of conscience, touch of conscience, voice of conscience;
compunctious visitings of nature † .
acknowledgment, confession &c (disclosure) 529; apology &c 952; recantation &c
607; penance &c 952; resipiscence † .
awakened conscience, deathbed repentance, locus paenitentiae [Lat.], stool of
repentance, cuttystool † .
penitent, repentant, Magdalen, prodigal son, a sadder and a wiser man [Coleridge].
V. repent, be sorry for; be penitent &c adj.; rue; regret &c 833; think better of; recant &c
607; knock under &c (submit) 725; plead guilty; sing miserere [Lat.], sing de profundis
[Lat.]; cry peccavi; own oneself in the wrong; acknowledge, confess &c, (disclose) 529;
humble oneself; beg pardon &c (apologize) 952; turn over a new leaf, put on the new
man, turn from sin; reclaim; repent in sackcloth and ashes &c, (do penance) 952; learn by
experience.
Adj. penitent; repenting &c v.; repentant, contrite; conscience-smitten, consciencestricken;
self-accusing, self-convicted.
penitential, penitentiary; reclaimed, reborn; not hardened; unhardened † .
Adv. mea culpa.
Phr. peccavi; erubuit [Lat.]; salva res est [Lat.] [Terence]; Tu l'as voulu [Fr.], Georges
Dandin; and wet his grave with my repentant tears [Richard III].
951. Impenitence -- N. impenitence, irrepentance † , recusance † ; lack of contrition.
hardness of heart, seared conscience, induration, obduracy.
V. be impenitent &c adj.; steel the heart, harden the heart; die game, die and make no
sign, die unshriven, die without benefit of clergy.