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vice
1[ vahys ]
noun
- an immoral or evil habit or practice:
These biblical verses cover the vices of boastfulness and pride, miserliness, and hypocrisy.
Synonyms: depravity, wrong, wrongdoing, fault
Antonyms: virtue
- immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior:
In the Christian religion there are numerous instances of sudden conversions from a life of vice to one of virtue.
Synonyms: corruptness, badness, corruption, wickedness, iniquity, sin, immorality
- sexual immorality, especially prostitution.
Synonyms: wantonness, licentiousness, degeneracy
- a particular form of depravity.
- a fault, defect, or shortcoming:
a minor vice in his literary style.
Synonyms: weakness, foible, flaw, imperfection, blemish, stain
- (of a horse’s behavior) a bad habit:
Allowing your horse turnout in a paddock may prevent vices such as weaving or wood chewing normally observed in a stall.
- Sometimes Vice. vice squad ( def ):
Detective Crockett was reassigned from the Robbery Division to Vice last year.
- Vice, a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.
- Archaic. a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity:
In most cases, attempts to relieve the symptoms will be of little avail without at the same time relieving or removing the constitutional vice which has induced this condition.
adjective
- of or relating to the vice squad, or to the threats to public order it is tasked to police, such as gambling, pornography, prostitution, and narcotics: the vice division of the police department.
a vice cop;
the vice division of the police department.
vice
2[ vahys ]
noun
- vise.
vice
3[ vahy-see, -suh, vahys ]
preposition
- instead of; in the place of:
The committee was reorganized, with Mr. Silver, vice Mr. Cooper, as the head.
vice-
4- a combining form meaning “deputy,” used in the formation of compound words, usually titles of officials who serve in the absence of the official denoted by the base word:
viceroy; vice-chancellor.
vice
1/ vaɪs /
adjective
- prenominal serving in the place of or as a deputy for
- ( in combination )
viceroy
noun
- informal.a person who serves as a deputy to another
vice
2/ vaɪs /
noun
- an immoral, wicked, or evil habit, action, or trait
- habitual or frequent indulgence in pernicious, immoral, or degrading practices
- a specific form of pernicious conduct, esp prostitution or sexual perversion
- a failing or imperfection in character, conduct, etc
smoking is his only vice
- obsolete.pathol any physical defect or imperfection
- a bad trick or disposition, as of horses, dogs, etc
Vice
3/ vaɪs /
noun
- (in English morality plays) a character personifying a particular vice or vice in general
vice
4/ ˈvaɪsɪ /
preposition
- instead of; as a substitute for
vice
5/ vaɪs /
noun
- an appliance for holding an object while work is done upon it, usually having a pair of jaws
verb
- tr to grip (something) with or as if with a vice
Derived Forms
- ˈviceless, adjective
- ˈviceˌlike, adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of vice1
Origin of vice2
Word History and Origins
Origin of vice1
Origin of vice2
Origin of vice3
Origin of vice4
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
With Vice, that was an example of you keeping yourself interested too, right?
BEST ACTOR Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice There is no better actor—right now—than Joaquin Phoenix.
Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President of the Fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.
Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, summed up the Southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.
“We look for the qualities that are evocative of V.S.O.P Privilege,” explained Hennessy Senior Vice President Rodney Williams.
When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.
And it would be hard indeed, if so remote a prince's notions of virtue and vice were to be offered as a standard for all mankind.
On the other hand, many men, by their own vice and intemperance, disqualify themselves for conversation.
So the first question has been whether to reinforce Gaba Tepe from Helles or vice versa.
The chief official of the court is called a chancellor, the others vice chancellors.
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