improbity

Roget-categorie 940

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.3. Moral conditions

#940. Improbity

zelfstandig naamwoord

improbity^† — dishonesty, dishonor — deviation from rectitude — disgrace etc. (disrepute) 874 — fraud etc. (deception) 545 — lying etc. 544 — bad faith, Punic faith — mala fides [Lat.], Punica fides [Lat.] — infidelity — faithlessness etc. adj. — Judas kiss, betrayal.
breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith — prodition^†, disloyalty, treason, high treason — apostasy etc. (tergiversation) 607 — nonobservance etc. 773.
shabbiness etc. adj. — villainy, villany^† — baseness etc. adj. — abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling.
perfidy — perfidiousness etc. adj. — treachery, double dealing — unfairness etc. adj. — knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play — jobbing, jobbery — graft, bribery — venality, nepotism — corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction — barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose — mouth honor etc. (flattery) 933.

werkwoord

be dishonest etc. adj. — play false — break one's word, break one's faith, break one's promise — jilt, betray, forswear — shuffle etc. (lie) 544 — live by one's wits, sail near the wind.
disgrace oneself, dishonor oneself, demean oneself — derogate, stoop, grovel, sneak, lose caste — sell oneself, go over to the enemy — seal one's infamy.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

dishonest, dishonorable — unconscientious, unscrupulous — fraudulent etc. 545 — knavish — disgraceful etc. (disreputable) 974 — wicked etc. 945.
false-hearted, disingenuous — unfair, one-sided — double, double-hearted, double-tongued, double-faced — timeserving^†, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery — fishy — perfidious, treacherous, perjured.
infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard.
contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging — beneath one.
low-minded, low-thoughted^† — base-minded.
undignified, indign^† — unbecoming, unbeseeming^†, unbefitting — derogatory, degrading — infra dignitatem [Lat.], beneath one's dignity — ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike — unknightly^†, unchivalric^†, unmanly, unhandsome — recreant, inglorious.
corrupt, venal — debased, mongrel.
faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal — untrustworthy — trustless, trothless^† — lost to shame, dead to honor — barratrous.

bijwoord

dishonestly etc. adj. — mala fide [Lat.], like a thief in the night, by crooked paths.

tussenwerpsel

O tempora! ^†, O mores!, [Cicero].

uitdrukking

corruptissima respublica plurimae corruptissima respublica plurimae leges [Lat.] [Tacitus].

The content on this page comes straight from Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget's Thesaurus No. Two, which consists of the acclaimed work by Peter Mark Roget augmented with more recent material. Some changes were made to the formatting for improved readability.

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