wrongdoing vs maintenance

maintenance vs wrongdoing

wrongdoing and maintenance both are nouns.

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

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

wrongdoing: activity that transgresses moral or civil law
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, criminal maintenance, infringement, violation.

wrongdoing (noun)	maintenance (noun)
activity that transgresses moral or civil law	activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
departure from what is ethically acceptable	the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence
	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
	means of maintenance of a family or group
	court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated

Difference between wrongdoing and maintenance

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