vice
noun
[ vʌɪs ]
• immoral or wicked behaviour.
• "an open sewer of vice and crime"
Similar:
immorality,
wrongdoing,
wrong,
wickedness,
badness,
evil-doing,
evil,
iniquity,
villainy,
venality,
impurity,
corruption,
corruptness,
misconduct,
sin,
sinfulness,
ungodliness,
godlessness,
unholiness,
unrighteousness,
profanity,
depravity,
degeneracy,
turpitude,
sordidity,
perversion,
pervertedness,
dissolution,
dissipation,
debauchery,
decadence,
lasciviousness,
lewdness,
lechery,
lecherousness,
degradation,
crime,
transgression,
offence,
immoral act,
evil act,
act of wickedness,
fall from grace,
trespass,
peccability,
peccancy,
Origin:
Middle English: via Old French from Latin vitium .
vice
preposition
• as a substitute for.
• "the letter was drafted by David Hunt, vice Bevin who was ill"
Origin:
Latin, ablative of vic- ‘change’.
vice
noun
• a metal tool with movable jaws which are used to hold an object firmly in place while work is done on it, typically attached to a workbench.
• "hold the rail in the vice"
Origin:
Middle English (denoting a screw or winch): from Old French vis, from Latin vitis ‘vine’.
vice
noun
• short for vice president, vice admiral, etc.
vice-
combining form
• next in rank to, and typically denoting capacity to deputize for.
• "vice-president"
Origin:
from Latin vice ‘in place of’ (compare with vice2).
