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Criminal or violent behavior resulting in another's death

A crime, or unethical or criminal behavior

Behavior or actions involving deception or deviousness

Violence when used in unethical or criminal behavior

Coercion or compulsion, especially with the use or threat of violence

An unjust, dishonest, or immoral act

Scandalous acts involving dishonesty or corruption

An act of dishonesty or deceit

Physical damage caused to something

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Noun

Criminal or violent behavior resulting in another's death

putting to death

second-degree murder

first-degree murder

political execution

contract killing

ethnic cleansing

mass destruction

wholesale slaughter

indiscriminate killing

wholesale killing

night of the long knives

taking of someone's life

race extermination

insurrectionism

capital punishment

indiscriminate bloodshed

search and destroy

putting to sleep

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“His friends also dispelled any possibility that Bizan's death was the result of foul play and the need for a criminal investigation.”

Noun

A crime, or unethical or criminal behavior

criminal activity

a criminal offence

criminal violence

criminal action

misrepresentation

smoke and mirrors

confidence trick

sanctimoniousness

pharisaicalness

confidence game

false profession

bit of sharp practice

fraudulent scheme

pretentiousness

piece of deception

self-righteousness

monkey business

daylight robbery

bait-and-switch

superciliousness

disingenuousness

hypocritical talk

hypocritical behaviour

self-satisfaction

duplicitousness

hollow pretense

false pretension

illegal enterprise

being two-faced

affected superiority

double standard

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“She also told Kim she had been quite shocked when Sonny had asked her if the police were investigating foul play.”

Noun

Behavior or actions involving deception or deviousness

treacherousness

monkey business

underhandedness

sleight of hand

unscrupulousness

smoke and mirrors

prestidigitation

misleading talk

every trick in the book

palace intrigue

untrustworthiness

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“Such a correlation might reflect a tendency for teams to retaliate in kind if the opposing team is guilty of a particularly high level of foul play.”

Noun

Violence when used in unethical or criminal behavior

bloodthirstiness

rough treatment

destructiveness

cruel treatment

lack of control

lack of restraint

strong-arm tactics

hard-heartedness

remorselessness

cold-bloodedness

hardheartedness

insensitiveness

cold-heartedness

lack of sympathy

black-heartedness

lack of charity

unforgivingness

inconsiderateness

stone-heartedness

lack of feeling

lack of compassion

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“He was on his feet declaiming this protest after Charles Woodhouse had read a paper containing references to the common-law compensation remedies and criminal prosecutions for violent foul play.”

Noun

Coercion or compulsion, especially with the use or threat of violence

pressurisation^UK

pressurization^US

strong-arm tactics

strong arm tactics

strong-arm tactic

reign of terror

demanding money with menaces

victimisation^UK

victimization^US

pressurizing^US

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

pressurising^UK

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Noun

An unjust, dishonest, or immoral act

misdemeanour^UK

criminal action

breach of the law

criminal offense

unrighteousness

misbehaviour^UK

reprehensibility

act of wickedness

act of brutality

act of savagery

act of violence

reprehensibleness

unethical behaviour

misdemeanours^UK

misdemeanors^US

criminal behavior

antisocial behavior

act of barbarity

mischief-making

inequitableness

unreasonableness

travesty of justice

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Noun

Scandalous acts involving dishonesty or corruption

Noun

An act of dishonesty or deceit

underhandedness

unscrupulousness

monkey business

misrepresentation

treacherousness

telling stories

smoke and mirrors

confidence trick

sleight of hand

breach of trust

double-crossing

lack of veracity

untrustworthiness

disingenuousness

dishonourableness

misrepresenting

unprincipledness

questionableness

questionability

surreptitiousness

every trick in the book

false-heartedness

committing perjury

ambidextrousness

palace intrigue

specious reasoning

artful argument

misappropriation

prestidigitation

confidence game

fraudulent scheme

misbehaviour^UK

bait and switch

stab in the back

mischievousness

unrighteousness

demoralization^US

demoralisation^UK

being on the take

dishonest dealings

little white lies

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Noun

Physical damage caused to something

deleteriousness

razing to the ground

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