wrongdoing vs criminal maintenance

criminal maintenance vs wrongdoing

wrongdoing and criminal maintenance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wrongdoing	Yes	No	No	No
criminal maintenance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, criminal maintenance is a hyponym of wrongdoing; that is, criminal maintenance is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than wrongdoing:

wrongdoing: activity that transgresses moral or civil law
criminal maintenance: the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community

Other hyponyms of wrongdoing include brutalisation, brutalization, encroachment, intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation, civil wrong, tort, malversation, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, dereliction, malfeasance, misfeasance, malpractice, malpractice, perversion, injury, injury, iniquity, injustice, shabbiness, unfairness, infliction, evildoing, transgression, dishonesty, knavery, falsification, misrepresentation, champerty, maintenance, infringement, violation.

wrongdoing (noun)	criminal maintenance (noun)
activity that transgresses moral or civil law	the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community
departure from what is ethically acceptable

Difference between wrongdoing and criminal maintenance

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