What is the Latin word for misbehavior?

The usual Latin words for “misbehavior” are vitium, prāvitās, inhūmānitās; also rūsticitās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

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“misbehavior” in Latin

vitiumflaw, defect, blemish, imperfection; vice; crime, wrongdoing, misdeed, sin, error, fault prāvitāscrookedness, inequality, irregularity, deformity; impropriety, perverseness; viciousness, untowardness, depravity inhūmānitāsinhumanity; barbarity, savagery; surliness, churlishness rūsticitāsrusticity (country life and people); uneducation, idiocy

Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864

misbehavior

vitium, pravitas (misconduct, through moral obliquity): inhumanitas, rusticitas, mores rustici (through want of good manners).

Quick answer

What is the Latin word for misbehavior?: The usual Latin words for “misbehavior” are vitium, prāvitās, inhūmānitās; also rūsticitās. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.

Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.