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Obliquation :: Obliquation (n.) Deviation from moral rectitude.

Stand :: Stand (n.) To adhere to fixed principles; to maintain moral rectitude; to keep from falling into error or vice.

Integrity :: Integrity (n.) Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with reference to the fulfillment of contracts, the discharge of agencies, trusts, and the like; uprightness; rectitude..

Stray :: Stray (a.) Figuratively, to wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err..

Corrupt :: Corrupt (v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe..

Crook :: Crook (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Immoral :: Immoral (a.) Not moral; inconsistent with rectitude, purity, or good morals; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest; vicious; licentious; as, an immoral man; an immoral deed..

Seduce :: Seduce (v. t.) To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.

Correct :: Correct (v. t.) To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying..

Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) To call back to rectitude from moral wandering or transgression; to draw back to correct deportment or course of life; to reform.

Rightfulness :: Rightfulness (n.) Moral rectitude; righteousness.

Aberration :: Aberration (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type..

Cynical :: Cynical (a.) Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.

Rectitude :: Rectitude (n.) Rightness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth, or to the rules prescribed for moral conduct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice..

Upright :: Upright (a.) Morally erect; having rectitude; honest; just; as, a man upright in all his ways..

Wrong :: Wrong (a.) Whatever deviates from moral rectitude; usually, an act that involves evil consequences, as one which inflicts injury on a person; any injury done to, or received from; another; a trespass; a violation of right..

Trespass :: Trespass (v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against..

Improbity :: Improbity (n.) Lack of probity; want of integrity or rectitude; dishonesty.

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