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  • 41mischief — I noun annoyance, criminality, cruelty, damage, damnum, danger, detriment, devilment, deviltry, disservice, evil, evil conduct, fault, foul play, frolicsomeness, harm, harmful action, hurt, ill consequence, impishness, incommodum, infliction,… …

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  • 42violation — I noun abuse, breach, contra leges, dereliction, desecration, disturbance, encroachment, illegality, impiety, infraction, infringement, interruption, invasion, irreverence, lawbreaking, misbehavior, mistreatment, misuse, nonobservance, offense,… …

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  • 43pollution — index contaminate, detriment, misusage, perversion Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 44bad treatment — index abuse (physical misuse), misusage Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 45catachresis — noun distortion, exaggeration, false coloring, false construction, false reading, garbling, incorrect usage, misapplication, misapprehension, miscitation, misconception, misconstruction, misexplanation, misexplication, misexposition,… …

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  • 46debasement — index abuse (physical misuse), attaint, bad faith, bad repute, contempt (disdain), corruption, defilement …

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  • 47defilement — I noun abomination, adulteration, besmirching, blackening, contamination, corruption, corruption of purity, debasement, debauchment, deflowering, degradation, demoralization, denigration, depravation, desecration, despoilment, devastation,… …

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  • 48degradation — I noun abasement, abjection, baseness, debasement, decadence, decadency, declension, declination, decline, dedecus, degeneratess, degeneration, demotion, deprival of honor, deterioration, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dismissal from office,… …

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  • 49desecration — index blasphemy, defilement, misusage, profanity, violation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 50exploitation — I noun employ, misapplication, misuse, overcharge, profiteering, turning to account, unethical use, use, usury, utilization, utilization for profit II index abuse (corrupt practice), function, graft, misusage …

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