Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

criminousness†; deviation from rectitude &c (improbity) 940 [Obs.]; sinfulness &c (vice) 945. misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed; malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression; dereliction, delinquency; indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas [Fr.], peccadillo; flaw, blot, omission; failing, failure; break, bad break! [U.S.], capital crime, delictum [Lat.]. offense, trespass; misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision; malefaction, malfeasance, malversation; crime, felony. enormity, atrocity, outrage; deadly sin, mortal sin; deed without a name [Macbeth]. corpus delicti. Adj. guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable†, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable†; weighed in the balance and found wanting; exceptionable. Adv. in flagrante delicto [Lat.]; red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar. Phr. cui prodest scelus in fecit [Lat.] [Seneca]; culpam paena premit comes [Lat.] [Horace]; O would the deed were good! [Richard II]; responsibility prevents crimes se judice nemo nocens absolvitur [Lat.] [Juvenal]; so many laws argues so many sins [Paradise Lost].