sin

n

1. transgression, trespass, violation; impiety, impiousness, profaneness, profanity, profanation, blasphemy; desecration, sacrilege, irreverence, irreli-giousness; deviltry, ungodliness, godlessness; nefari-ousness, flagitiousness, heinousness, vileness, viciousness.

2. sinfulness, wrong, wickedness, vice, bad, badness, baseness, foulness, meanness; immorality, iniquity, evil, wrong; error, guilt, obduracy, hardhardedness; unregeneracy, impenitence, incorrigibility; maleficence, malignancy, malevolence, malignity, rancor, maliciousness; atrocity, outrage, abomination.

3. offense, fault, crime, infraction, criminal infraction, violation; infringement, misdeed, dereliction, slip, lapse, omission; shortcoming, peccadillo, foible, malefaction, delinquency, law breaking, felony, misdemeanor.

v

4. transgress, trespass, offend, desecrate, profane, defile, debase; go astray, fall from grace; break the law, fault, commit a sin or crime; make a mistake, go wrong, slip up, lapse, trip, stray from the straight and narrow, misbehave; go to pot, go to hell, go to hell in a handbasket; be degraded, sink to the depths; sin against, injure, hurt, harm, wound, damage, wrong, malign.