Vice

Quick meaning: Vice is a noun meaning Bad or immoral behaviour. (Especially often, a habit that harms oneself or others).

Meaning

Bad or immoral behaviour. (Especially often, a habit that harms oneself or others).

More Meanings

1. (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
2. (law enforcement, slang) Clipping of vice squad.
3. A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
4. (Commonwealth) Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”).
5. A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
6. (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
7. (obsolete) A grip or grasp.

Example Sentences

Pride is a vice, not a virtue.

Smoking was a vice Sally picked up in high school.

Fang. If I but fiſt him once: if he come but within my Vice.

I should not be left to my own devices / they come with prices and vices / I end up in crisis / Tale as old as time

Word Forms

• vices
• vicing
• viced

Synonyms for vice

Depending on context, synonyms include profligacy, carrying-on, knavery, rakehood, frailty.

Antonyms for vice

Common opposites include virtue.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frailty, immorality, evil, fault, defect, deficiency.

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