Antonyms for on the take
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : teyk |
| Phonetic Transcription : teɪk |
- chaste
- clean
- cleanliness
- cleanness
- decency
- decent
- ethical
- good
- goodness
- helpful
- high
- honest
- honesty
- honor
- honorable
- justice
- kind
- kindness
- moral
- noble
- principled
- pure
- pureness
- purification
- purified
- purity
- resolute
- respectable
- respectful
- right
- scrupulous
- sound
- sterility
- trustworthy
- truthful
- truthfulness
- uncorrupt
- upright
- virtue
- virtuous
- wholesome
- wholesomeness
Definition of on the take
Origin :- 1650s, "that which is taken in payment," from take (v.). Sense of "money taken in" by a single performance, etc., is from 1931. Movie-making sense is recorded from 1927. Criminal sense of "money acquired by theft" is from 1888. The verb sense of "to cheat, defraud" is from 1920. On the take "amenable to bribery" is from 1930.
- As in venal : adj bribable, corruptible
- As in corrupt : adj dishonest
- As in dissolute : adj lacking restraint, indulgent
- As in villainousness : noun corruption
- As in corruption : noun dishonesty
Synonyms for on the take
- abandoned
- amoral
- base
- bent
- bestiality
- breach of trust
- bribable
- bribery
- bribing
- buyable
- conscienceless
- corrupt
- crime
- crooked
- crookedness
- debauched
- degenerate
- demoralization
- depraved
- depravity
- dishonest
- dissipated
- double-dealing
- evil
- exploitation
- exploiting
- extortion
- extortionate
- faithless
- fast
- fast and loose
- fiddling
- fixed
- flagitiousness
- foul
- fraud
- fraudulency
- fraudulent
- gone bad
- gone to the dogs
- graft
- high living
- immoral
- immorality
- in the fast lane
- inconstant
- iniquitous
- intemperate
- jobbery
- knavish
- lascivious
- lax
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- licentious
- light
- loose
- malfeasance
- mercenary
- misrepresentation
- nefarious
- nepotism
- night owl
- nighthawk
- on the take
- open
- padded
- payoff
- payola
- perfidious
- perversion
- player
- praetorian
- profiteering
- profligate
- purchasable
- racket
- racket up
- raffish
- rakish
- reprobate
- rotten
- shadiness
- shady
- shady deal
- shuffle
- skimming
- slack
- snide
- squeeze
- suborned
- swift
- sybaritic
- tainted
- treacherous
- turpitude
- two-faced
- unconstrained
- underhanded
- unethical
- unfaithful
- unprincipled
- unprofessional
- unrestrained
- unscrupulous
- unscrupulousness
- untrustworthy
- venal
- venality
- vice
- vicious
- villainy
- wanton
- wayward
- wicked
- wickedness
- wide open
- wild
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