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1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple. 2. An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.

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  • FAULTINESS
    Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
  • CORRUPTIONIST
    One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
  • DEFECTIONIST
    One who advocates or encourages defection.
  • DEFECTUOSITY
    Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
  • DEFECTIBILITY
    Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
  • DEFECTIVE
    Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
  • CORRUPTION
    1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
  • FAULT
    A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
  • FAULTING
    The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
  • CRIME
    which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the 1. Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. 2. Gross violation of human law, in distinction
  • CRIMELESS
    Free from crime; innocent. Shak.
  • IMMORALITY
    1. The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple. 2. An immoral act or practice. Luxury and sloth and then a great drove of heresies and immoralities broke loose among them. Milton.
  • FAULT-FINDING
    The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
  • DEFECTUOUS
    Full of defects; imperfect. Barrow.
  • DEFECT
    fail, be wanting; de- + facere to make, do. See Fact, Feat, and cf. 1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies.
  • DEFECTIOUS
    Having defects; imperfect. "Some one defectious piece." Sir P. Sidney.
  • DEFECTIBLE
    Liable to defect; imperfect. "A defectible understanding." Jer. Taylor.
  • FAULTLESS
    Without fault; not defective or imperfect; free from blemish; free from incorrectness, vice, or offense; perfect; as, a faultless poem. Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. Pope. Syn.
  • FAULTFUL
    Full of faults or sins. Shak.
  • FAULTY
    1. Containing faults, blemishes, or defects; imperfect; not fit for the use intended. Created once So goodly and erect, though faulty since. Milton. 2. Guilty of a fault, or of faults; hence, blamable; worthy of censure. Shak. The king doth speak
  • PICK-FAULT
    One who seeks out faults.
  • INDEFECTIBLE
    Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
  • INCORRUPTION
    The condition or quality of being incorrupt or incorruptible; absence of, or exemption from, corruption. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption. 1 Cor. xv.
  • FALSICRIMEN
    The crime of falsifying. Note: This term in the Roman law included not only forgery, but every species of fraud and deceit. It never has been used in so extensive a sense in modern common law, in which its predominant significance is forgery, though
  • FINDFAULTING
    Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
  • FINDFAULT
    A censurer or caviler.
  • DEFAULTER
    1. One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called. 2. One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.

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