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somethingdarkerMost financial crimes that have too few fragments for their own post can be found here: Potential Titles: Money - Dubiously Legal [category]. That's mostly because I created that category first. I'm not going to try to duplicate them because I'll loose track of what's where and probably only update one category the next time I have a snippet. Once those words have their own posts, I'll put them in both places.
Crimes of deceit may also be found here: Potential Titles: Deceit and Trickery [category].
Many acts and tools of violence can be found in the posts about war/combat and weapons: Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military - Activities [category], Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military Adjacent [category], and Potential Titles: Weapons, Armor, and Adjacent [category].
Religious crimes and punishments are mostly going to be found here: Potential Titles: Supernatural/Religious [category] and Potential Titles: Rank/Titles - Religious [category].
People committing and/or punishing crime will sometimes be here: Potential Titles: Ranks/Titles - People and Groups in Communities/Relationships [category] (Another category I established before I did this one).
Not all of these are always crimes or always violent. Some things listed (such as Blasphemy, Obscenity, and Vagrancy) are things that I personally don't consider crimes but that are often legally banned. Some things are technically legal or hard to define well enough to legislate but violent/cruel or things I consider dubious behaviors/actions. Some things, such as Rebellion or Protest, are crimes from certain points of view but may be viewed as justified and righteous by participants.
Additionally, some of the acts of violence listed have been used as judicial punishments, and some words listed in the Law: Repercussions post are (or ought to be) crimes or, at least, are extremely controversial as legally imposed punishments..
Abduct:
Wanted to abduct nothing more valuable than our dreams - Duane Ackerson "Porch Lights"
I follow fallen maple leaves abducted by the wind - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Maple leaves abducted by the wind - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Abet:
Still the glorious sham abetting - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"
Abscond:
Bliss is a body absconding - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Abuse:
The recent abuses of math - Jim Daniels "Treaty"
Be accused because its virtues are abused - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Accomplice.
Accuse.
Addict/Addiction.
Affront.
Alias:
To watch this alias of a race - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"
Alibi.
Allege.
Annihilate.
Arson.
Assassin/Assassination.
Assault.
Atrocity.
Bandit.
Beg.
Behead.
Black Market:
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Blackguard:
Cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world - A.E. Housman "Last Poems IX"
Blasphemy.
Bootleg:
Bootlegged in the marketplace - William Archila "Saturn's Country"
Brigands and bootleggers and burglars - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
The bully of the bootleg town - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Tragedy of Pete"
Bribe.
Brigand:
Brigands and bootleggers and burglars - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Offer a share of your brigand-sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Buccaneer:
Playing buccaneer among the minnows - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"
Butcher.
Cannibal:
In some cannibalistic parent and child reunion - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"
Algorithms cannibalize our art with parasite teeth - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Distinguish capitalism from cannibalism - Jessica Kim "Montage"
Beneath a cannibal sun - Anne Knish "Opus 1: Reiteration!..."
Carnage:
Sprawl in the carnage and count the spoils - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
No trade but battle and carnage - Li Po "Fighting" transl. by Arthur Waley
Through the red sea of the carnage - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Track carnage on her gory way - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Chicanery:
Chicanery's brought to succor darkest crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Coerce:
To flee the hypnotic force of such coercions - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
What might coerce her to nostalgia - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
By talisman or spell coerce - Richard Wilbur "Trismegistus"
Collude:
In collusion with memory - Stephen Dunn "The Telling of Grandmother's Secret"
Colluded with emptiness to conceal - Jazno Francoeur "Home"
In a blue collusion of dusk and rain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"
Contraband.
Counterfeit.
Crime.
Crook/Crooked.
Culprit:
To look with grief on the culprit's way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And justice dooms you to a culprit's fate - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
Cut-Throat:
Those cut-throats the Sparrows, that robber the Daw - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset and William Roscoe "The Fancy Fair; of, Grand Gala of the Zoological Gardens"
A cave of cut-throat thoughts and villainous dreams - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Here's damnation to the cut-throats! - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
Debauch:
In a Hell's debauch of dyes - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
Desecrate:
Must desecrate this silent time - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Desecration in your eyes - Nikita Gill "Persephone to Theseus and Pirithous"
To meet at last the desecrated dawn - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Tonight"
Desperado:
For desperados and bleached bones - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Dimebag:
Pockets pregnant with moondust in dimebags - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"
Disgrace.
Dismember:
A diagonal dismemberment of silk - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"
Dismembering every fraction like a toy - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Needed no dismembered star to guide you - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"
Drug Market:
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Drunk.
Duress:
Some landscapes under duress - Aditi Machada "Rhapsody"
As sluggish waters in duress - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"
That evades the duress of our current reality - Prageeta Sharma "I Am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace"
Embezzle:
A temporal embezzlement siphoning away my time - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"
Evil.
Eviscerate:
the evisceration of slang on altars made unkind - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
Felon:
Bless the felon food we eat - Ralph Chaplin "To Freedom"
On the fox he flies, the self-convicted felon dies - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The pardon that a felon spoke - Theodore Maynard "Christmas on Crusade"
Hoping to sidestep felony - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"
Fiasco:
A member of the fiasco survivor's club - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands, II"
Filch:
Filch'd her fortune and her fame - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Secrets filched and heralded abroad - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Flay:
Flay the very heavens with its raging - Giosue Carducci "Old Figurines" transl. by Frank Sewall
magpies that flay blackbirds - Tanque R. Jones "Hany"
Forsworn:
Our earth bent dustward forsworn to decay - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Foul.
Fratricide:
And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Fugitive.
Guilt.
Gun-Running:
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Harass.
Harlot:
Silken harlots, velvet wine - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"
Havoc.
Henchman:
Henchmen busy with locks & chains - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Stand and serve in the henchman's place - Margaret J. Preston "Saint Martin's Temptation" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]
Highwayman:
To ride with the Bandit King and his highwaymen - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Hijack:
Hijack the next spaceship and travel to Mars - Julie Babcock "Dick and Jane Burn Down the House"
What yacht or spaceship have you hijacked? - Elaine Equi "No Other" [Poetry May 2019]
Hijacked the Doppler radar screen - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"
Undertake the hijacking of language - Prageeta Sharma "Poetry Anonymous"
Homocide:
Homocide begins with the heartbeat - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"
Hoodwink:
Harm those they hoodwink - Tommaso Campanella "XXVII. The Bad Prince" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Hooligan:
A hooligan run wild littering the streets - Paul Cameron Brown "Rouge and Gray"
Shredding the sky in their hooligan gangs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
Hostage.
Identity Theft:
Identity theft has knocked off a few years - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
Illicit.
Impale.
Incest:
Mortality in the incest breath of life - Paul Cameron Brown "Turncoat"
Iniquity.
Inviolate/Violate.
Jeopardy:
Shield them from that jeopardy - Elinor Jenkins "Dreams Trespassing"
To jeopardize my own supremacy - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Agencies that jeopardize the birdsong - June Jordan "6.3.96-6.4.96"
Kill.
Larceny:
With petty larcenies and pokers - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"
Lawless.
Lechery:
To license lust with all a lecher's rage - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Loot:
Solved all danger of the looting - Thomas O'Hagan "Trouble in the Louvre"
Lynch:
Also where lynched men die - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Maim:
Left the gladioli & zinnias maimed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Malcontent:
Rough-hewn hours of practice and malcontent - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
Malcontents and mutineers - Charles Cotton "Contentation"
The alphabet for interrupters, malcontents - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
Massacre:
Lend their limbs to massacre - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Never gave consent to those red days of massacre - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"
I was a massacre for the dark - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
Mayhem:
Can't make this mayhem a miracle - brian g. gilmore "denny mcclain, in garden city, michigan (for scott & dan)"
A mayhem that torments a city - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"
Minion.
Miscreant:
Vengeance smite the hardened miscreant in his bold career - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Misdemeanor:
Withholding judgment on our misdemeanors - Boris Dralyuk "The Passing of the Bungalows"
The misdemeanors of uncounted time - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"
Molest:
Where Reynard's paw could not molest - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"
Murder.
Mutilate:
Among these discreet mutilations - Xan Phillips "I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin so I Made a New One"
Mutiny.
Neglect/Negligence.
Obscene.
Offend/Offense.
Perfidy.
Perjure.
Perpetrate.
Perverse.
Pilfer.
Piracy/Pirate.
Plunder.
Pornography:
Pornographic magazines ported into the redwoods - Dean Young "Lucifer"
Prostitution:
Chaste prostitution of the shameful speck of dust - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Protest.
Pyromania:
My nostalgia is a pyromaniac - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
Rampage:
All the bizarre debris of your exotic rampage - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
Your exotic rampage through the annals of myth - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
Ransack.
Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.
Reiver:
When the princes all were reivers - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Resurrectionist:
Mere Resurrectionists trying to get at the grave of the laws - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Revolt/Revolution.
Revolutionary.
Riot.
Rob.
Rogue.
Scandal:
To call attention to this bit of scandal - Josephine Pollard "Music on All Fours" [St. Nicholas v.V no.3, Jan. 1878]
Sedition:
When foul sedition through the land diffused - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
What karma will justify sedition - Varsha Saraiya-Shah "Anthem for America"
Sin.
Slander.
Slaughter.
Smother.
Stab.
Steal/Stole.
Stolen.
Strangle
Supervillain:
hypertension induced by a world that roots for the supervillain - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Tamper:
Without fear of our tampering - J. Estanislao Lopez "The Systemic"
Terrorism:
Terrorism in the domain of speech - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Theft.
Thief.
Torment.
Torture.
Transgress.
Treason.
Trespass.
Vagabond.
Vagrant.
Vandal:
Vandals of the sobbing night - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Vice.
Vicious.
Victim.
Vigilante:
You black vigilantes of Greed - Ralph Chaplin "Wesley Everest"
Vile.
Villain.
Violate.
Violence/Violent.
Waylay:
Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
In some vile alley of the night waylaid - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Wicked.
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Crimes of deceit may also be found here: Potential Titles: Deceit and Trickery [category].
Many acts and tools of violence can be found in the posts about war/combat and weapons: Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military - Activities [category], Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military Adjacent [category], and Potential Titles: Weapons, Armor, and Adjacent [category].
Religious crimes and punishments are mostly going to be found here: Potential Titles: Supernatural/Religious [category] and Potential Titles: Rank/Titles - Religious [category].
People committing and/or punishing crime will sometimes be here: Potential Titles: Ranks/Titles - People and Groups in Communities/Relationships [category] (Another category I established before I did this one).
Not all of these are always crimes or always violent. Some things listed (such as Blasphemy, Obscenity, and Vagrancy) are things that I personally don't consider crimes but that are often legally banned. Some things are technically legal or hard to define well enough to legislate but violent/cruel or things I consider dubious behaviors/actions. Some things, such as Rebellion or Protest, are crimes from certain points of view but may be viewed as justified and righteous by participants.
Additionally, some of the acts of violence listed have been used as judicial punishments, and some words listed in the Law: Repercussions post are (or ought to be) crimes or, at least, are extremely controversial as legally imposed punishments..
Abduct:
Wanted to abduct nothing more valuable than our dreams - Duane Ackerson "Porch Lights"
I follow fallen maple leaves abducted by the wind - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Maple leaves abducted by the wind - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"
Abet:
Still the glorious sham abetting - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"
Abscond:
Bliss is a body absconding - Airea D. Matthews "Altitude"
Abuse:
The recent abuses of math - Jim Daniels "Treaty"
Be accused because its virtues are abused - John Gay "Fable VI: Miser and Plutus" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
Accomplice.
Accuse.
Addict/Addiction.
Affront.
Alias:
To watch this alias of a race - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"
Alibi.
Allege.
Annihilate.
Arson.
Assassin/Assassination.
Assault.
Atrocity.
Bandit.
Beg.
Behead.
Black Market:
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Blackguard:
Cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world - A.E. Housman "Last Poems IX"
Blasphemy.
Bootleg:
Bootlegged in the marketplace - William Archila "Saturn's Country"
Brigands and bootleggers and burglars - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
The bully of the bootleg town - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Tragedy of Pete"
Bribe.
Brigand:
Brigands and bootleggers and burglars - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"
Offer a share of your brigand-sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"
Buccaneer:
Playing buccaneer among the minnows - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"
Butcher.
Cannibal:
In some cannibalistic parent and child reunion - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"
Algorithms cannibalize our art with parasite teeth - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"
Distinguish capitalism from cannibalism - Jessica Kim "Montage"
Beneath a cannibal sun - Anne Knish "Opus 1: Reiteration!..."
Carnage:
Sprawl in the carnage and count the spoils - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
No trade but battle and carnage - Li Po "Fighting" transl. by Arthur Waley
Through the red sea of the carnage - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]
Track carnage on her gory way - E. Peel "Bordino.--An Ode" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLI, v.LVII, Jan. 1845]
Chicanery:
Chicanery's brought to succor darkest crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Coerce:
To flee the hypnotic force of such coercions - Bruce Boston & Robert Frazier "A Compass for the Mutant Rain Forest"
What might coerce her to nostalgia - Aditi Machado "Experiment with Aspic"
By talisman or spell coerce - Richard Wilbur "Trismegistus"
Collude:
In collusion with memory - Stephen Dunn "The Telling of Grandmother's Secret"
Colluded with emptiness to conceal - Jazno Francoeur "Home"
In a blue collusion of dusk and rain - Alessandra Lynch "Meditation on Rain"
Contraband.
Counterfeit.
Crime.
Crook/Crooked.
Culprit:
To look with grief on the culprit's way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]
And justice dooms you to a culprit's fate - James Parkerson "The Convict's Farewell: with Advice to Criminals, before and after Trial"
Cut-Throat:
Those cut-throats the Sparrows, that robber the Daw - Catherine Ann Turner Dorset and William Roscoe "The Fancy Fair; of, Grand Gala of the Zoological Gardens"
A cave of cut-throat thoughts and villainous dreams - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
Here's damnation to the cut-throats! - Oliver Wendell Holmes "Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry"
Debauch:
In a Hell's debauch of dyes - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"
Desecrate:
Must desecrate this silent time - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
Desecration in your eyes - Nikita Gill "Persephone to Theseus and Pirithous"
To meet at last the desecrated dawn - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Tonight"
Desperado:
For desperados and bleached bones - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"
Dimebag:
Pockets pregnant with moondust in dimebags - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"
Disgrace.
Dismember:
A diagonal dismemberment of silk - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"
Dismembering every fraction like a toy - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Needed no dismembered star to guide you - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"
Drug Market:
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Drunk.
Duress:
Some landscapes under duress - Aditi Machada "Rhapsody"
As sluggish waters in duress - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"
That evades the duress of our current reality - Prageeta Sharma "I Am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace"
Embezzle:
A temporal embezzlement siphoning away my time - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"
Evil.
Eviscerate:
the evisceration of slang on altars made unkind - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"
Felon:
Bless the felon food we eat - Ralph Chaplin "To Freedom"
On the fox he flies, the self-convicted felon dies - John Gay "Fable LI: Dog and Fox" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
The pardon that a felon spoke - Theodore Maynard "Christmas on Crusade"
Hoping to sidestep felony - Art Zilleruelo "Someone's Property"
Fiasco:
A member of the fiasco survivor's club - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands, II"
Filch:
Filch'd her fortune and her fame - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]
Secrets filched and heralded abroad - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Flay:
Flay the very heavens with its raging - Giosue Carducci "Old Figurines" transl. by Frank Sewall
magpies that flay blackbirds - Tanque R. Jones "Hany"
Forsworn:
Our earth bent dustward forsworn to decay - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"
Foul.
Fratricide:
And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall
Fugitive.
Guilt.
Gun-Running:
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"
Harass.
Harlot:
Silken harlots, velvet wine - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"
Havoc.
Henchman:
Henchmen busy with locks & chains - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Stand and serve in the henchman's place - Margaret J. Preston "Saint Martin's Temptation" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.12, no.33, Dec. 1873]
Highwayman:
To ride with the Bandit King and his highwaymen - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"
Hijack:
Hijack the next spaceship and travel to Mars - Julie Babcock "Dick and Jane Burn Down the House"
What yacht or spaceship have you hijacked? - Elaine Equi "No Other" [Poetry May 2019]
Hijacked the Doppler radar screen - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"
Undertake the hijacking of language - Prageeta Sharma "Poetry Anonymous"
Homocide:
Homocide begins with the heartbeat - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"
Hoodwink:
Harm those they hoodwink - Tommaso Campanella "XXVII. The Bad Prince" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Hooligan:
A hooligan run wild littering the streets - Paul Cameron Brown "Rouge and Gray"
Shredding the sky in their hooligan gangs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"
Hostage.
Identity Theft:
Identity theft has knocked off a few years - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"
Illicit.
Impale.
Incest:
Mortality in the incest breath of life - Paul Cameron Brown "Turncoat"
Iniquity.
Inviolate/Violate.
Jeopardy:
Shield them from that jeopardy - Elinor Jenkins "Dreams Trespassing"
To jeopardize my own supremacy - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]
Agencies that jeopardize the birdsong - June Jordan "6.3.96-6.4.96"
Kill.
Larceny:
With petty larcenies and pokers - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"
Lawless.
Lechery:
To license lust with all a lecher's rage - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"
Loot:
Solved all danger of the looting - Thomas O'Hagan "Trouble in the Louvre"
Lynch:
Also where lynched men die - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"
Maim:
Left the gladioli & zinnias maimed - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Whistle"
Malcontent:
Rough-hewn hours of practice and malcontent - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
Malcontents and mutineers - Charles Cotton "Contentation"
The alphabet for interrupters, malcontents - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"
Massacre:
Lend their limbs to massacre - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"
Never gave consent to those red days of massacre - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"
I was a massacre for the dark - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"
Mayhem:
Can't make this mayhem a miracle - brian g. gilmore "denny mcclain, in garden city, michigan (for scott & dan)"
A mayhem that torments a city - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"
Minion.
Miscreant:
Vengeance smite the hardened miscreant in his bold career - Euripedes "The Trojan Captives" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Misdemeanor:
Withholding judgment on our misdemeanors - Boris Dralyuk "The Passing of the Bungalows"
The misdemeanors of uncounted time - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"
Molest:
Where Reynard's paw could not molest - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Kites"
Murder.
Mutilate:
Among these discreet mutilations - Xan Phillips "I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin so I Made a New One"
Mutiny.
Neglect/Negligence.
Obscene.
Offend/Offense.
Perfidy.
Perjure.
Perpetrate.
Perverse.
Pilfer.
Piracy/Pirate.
Plunder.
Pornography:
Pornographic magazines ported into the redwoods - Dean Young "Lucifer"
Prostitution:
Chaste prostitution of the shameful speck of dust - WEB Du Bois "A Litany of Atlanta: Done at Atlanta, in the Day of Death, 1906" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Protest.
Pyromania:
My nostalgia is a pyromaniac - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"
Rampage:
All the bizarre debris of your exotic rampage - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
Your exotic rampage through the annals of myth - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"
Ransack.
Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.
Reiver:
When the princes all were reivers - J.S.B. "Farewell to the Rhine: Lines Written at Bonn" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXVII, v.LXXI, Mar. 1852]
Resurrectionist:
Mere Resurrectionists trying to get at the grave of the laws - "Britain's Prosperity: A New Song, which Ought to Have Been Sung by the Premier at the Opening of Parliament" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCXIV, v.LXVII, Apr. 1850]
Revolt/Revolution.
Revolutionary.
Riot.
Rob.
Rogue.
Scandal:
To call attention to this bit of scandal - Josephine Pollard "Music on All Fours" [St. Nicholas v.V no.3, Jan. 1878]
Sedition:
When foul sedition through the land diffused - Euripedes "Hercules Distracted" transl. by Michael Wodhull
What karma will justify sedition - Varsha Saraiya-Shah "Anthem for America"
Sin.
Slander.
Slaughter.
Smother.
Stab.
Steal/Stole.
Stolen.
Strangle
Supervillain:
hypertension induced by a world that roots for the supervillain - Gerald L. Coleman "Age of Villains" [Strange Horizons 20 Jan. 2025]
Tamper:
Without fear of our tampering - J. Estanislao Lopez "The Systemic"
Terrorism:
Terrorism in the domain of speech - Emilio Villa "Poetry is" transl. by Dominic Siracusa
Theft.
Thief.
Torment.
Torture.
Transgress.
Treason.
Trespass.
Vagabond.
Vagrant.
Vandal:
Vandals of the sobbing night - Jean de Esque "Betelguese"
Vice.
Vicious.
Victim.
Vigilante:
You black vigilantes of Greed - Ralph Chaplin "Wesley Everest"
Vile.
Villain.
Violate.
Violence/Violent.
Waylay:
Waylaid by a merry ghost at every lamp - William Ernest Henley "London Voluntaries"
In some vile alley of the night waylaid - William Ernest Henley "Rhymes and Rhythms"
Wicked.
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