All transgression synonyms

noun transgression

• misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
• gaff — harsh treatment or criticism: All the gaff he took never made him bitter.
• intrusion — Law. an illegal act of entering, seizing, or taking possession of another's property. a wrongful entry after the determination of a particular estate, made before the remainderman or reversioner has entered.
• insubmission — Lack of submission; disobedience.
• goof-up — a foolish or stupid person.
• maleficence — the doing of evil or harm: the maleficence of thieves.
• misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
• lubricity — oily smoothness, as of a surface; slipperiness.
• wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
• breach — If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
• misbelief — erroneous belief; false opinion.
• mess-up — a blunder; state of confusion; mix-up.
• onesidedness — The property of being onesided.
• guilt — the fact or state of having committed an offense, crime, violation, or wrong, especially against moral or penal law; culpability: He admitted his guilt.
• crime — A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
• delict — a wrongful act for which the person injured has the right to a civil remedy
• criminality — the state or quality of being criminal
• indiscretion — lack of discretion; imprudence.
• invasion — an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
• howlers — Plural form of howler.
• malpractice — Law. failure of a professional person, as a physician or lawyer, to render proper services through reprehensible ignorance or negligence or through criminal intent, especially when injury or loss follows.
• interposition — the act or fact of interposing or the condition of being interposed.
• fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• malversation — improper or corrupt behavior in office, especially in public office.
• answerability — liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
• boo-boo — A boo-boo is a silly mistake or blunder.
• mischief — conduct or activity that playfully causes petty annoyance.
• indiscipline — lack of discipline or control: a campus problem of student indiscipline.
• misdoing — A misdeed.
• infiltration — the act or process of infiltrating.
• disobedience — lack of obedience or refusal to comply; disregard or transgression.
• offense — a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
• gaucherie — lack of social grace, sensitivity, or acuteness; awkwardness; crudeness; tactlessness.
• dirty trick — act: unfair, dishonest
• faux pas — a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.
• entrenchment — The process of entrenching or something which entrenches.
• erring — Be mistaken or incorrect; make a mistake.
• deflection — The deflection of something means making it change direction.
• wrongness — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
• nonobservance — absence or lack of observance.
• mischievousness — maliciously or playfully annoying.
• booboos — a stupid or silly mistake; blunder.
• illegality — illegal condition or quality; unlawfulness.
• foul-up — a condition of difficulty or disorder brought on by inefficiency, stupidity, etc.
• mismanagement — The process or practice of managing ineptly, incompetently, or dishonestly.
• deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
• impiety — lack of piety; lack of reverence for God or sacred things; irreverence.
• error — A mistake.
• funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.