CONTRAVENTION Synonyms

• a crime less serious than a felony

• an act that disregards an agreement or a right

• entry to another's property without right or permission

• a disrespectful act

• the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will

• a failure to perform some promised act or obligation

• an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

• a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

• make an opening or gap in

• intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude

• a hostile challenge

• a defiant act

• the failure to obey

• the trait of being unwilling to obey

• lack of attention and due care

• willful lack of care and attention

• refuse to acknowledge

• bar from attention or consideration

• give little or no attention to

• an act that disregards an agreement or a right

• a crime less serious than a felony

• defiance of authority

• an insubordinate act

• the failure to obey

• a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc.

• refusal to accept some authority or code or convention

• organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion

• a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms

• the military action of resisting the enemy's advance

• (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease

• the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents

• a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force

• the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)

• (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

• an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current

• group action in opposition to those in power

• a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages

• entry to another's property without right or permission

• enter unlawfully on someone's property

• make excessive use of

• break the law

• commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

• pass beyond (limits or boundaries)

• treat with contemptuous disregard

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• a disagreement or argument about something important

• coming into conflict with

• take exception to

• have a disagreement over something

• any structure that makes progress difficult

• the physical condition of blocking or filling a passage with an obstruction

• something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted

• the act of obstructing

• getting in someone's way

• the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with

• the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected

• the relation between opposed entities

• the act of hostile groups opposing each other

• a contestant that you are matched against

• a body of people united in opposing something

• a direction opposite to another

• an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)