Transgressive

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Exceeding a limit or boundary, especially of social acceptability.
  • adj. Of or relating to a genre of fiction, filmmaking, or art characterized by graphic depictions of behavior that violates socially acceptable norms, often involving violence, drug use, and sexual deviancy.
  • adj. Of or relating to geological transgression.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Involving transgression; that passes beyond some limit; sinful.
  • adj. Going beyond generally accepted boundaries; violating usual practice, subversive.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Inclined or apt to transgress; faulty; sinful; culpable.
    • Word Usage
    "It adds to the discomfiture that this soft-spoken ex-journalist -- who cheerfully labels his work "transgressive" -- looks uncannily like Anthony Perkins circa Psycho."
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    Words with the same meaning
    faulty    culpable    sinful   
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