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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.
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- 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.
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- sexual immorality, especially prostitution.
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- a particular form of depravity.
- a fault, defect, or shortcoming:
a minor vice in his literary style.
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- (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/ ɪ /
noun
- (in English morality plays) a character personifying a particular vice or vice in general
vice
2/ ɪ /
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/ ɪ /
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
vice
4/ ɪ /
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
5/ ˈɪɪ /
preposition
- instead of; as a substitute for
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adjective
- ˈˌ, adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of vice1
Origin of vice2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of vice1
Origin of vice2
Origin of vice3
Origin of vice4
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Later, as the Broncos’ general manager and executive vice president of football operations, Elway helped the team make two more Super Bowl appearances, including a victory following the 2015 season.
He dealt with his internment without trial in the 1970s and the 1981 Republican hunger strikes, by which time he was Sinn Féin vice president.
Edison uses the term to “designate someone in a high position of authority,” she said, such as “an employee director, vice president or similar title.”
Andrea Javor, an executive vice president in corporate marketing who has worked in male-dominated industries for two decades was often told by men that the way she phrased things was “too emotional.”
“A lot of these tech companies that hired to the moon are falling back down to Earth,” said Andy Challenger, senior vice president at Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
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