Antonyms for vice
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : vahys |
| Phonetic Transcription : vaɪs |
Definition of vice
Origin :- "moral fault, wickedness," c.1300, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium "defect, offense, blemish, imperfection," in both physical and moral senses (cf. Italian vezzo "usage, entertainment").
- Horace and Aristotle have already spoken to us about the virtues of their forefathers and the vices of their own times, and through the centuries, authors have talked the same way. If all this were true, we would be bears today. [Montesquieu]
- Vice squad is attested from 1905. Vice anglais "corporal punishment," literally "the English vice," is attested from 1942, from French.
- noun bad habit; sin
- noun weakness
- Persuasive is the voice of Vice, That spreads the insidious snare.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- It seems to be the vice of those who have a long past behind them.
- Extract from : « The New Adam and Eve (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Vice was like hysterics—the more kindness you showed the worse grew the patient!
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- They are presented as good and evil, as vice and virtue, as villainy and heroism.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
- As for work, the blacksmith reveled in it, and made it practically his only vice.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- Almost always these abandoned children are the offspring of vice.
- Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
- Then vanity, the vice which promotes so many virtues, asserts itself.
- Extract from : « The Story of the Malakand Field Force » by Sir Winston S. Churchill
- The second power of vulgarity is obscenity, and this vice is like the pestilence.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
- The primal impulse of vice and sin is a short cut to happiness.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
- He might, perhaps, be led into all sorts of fashionable dissipation and vice.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 5 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
Synonyms for vice
- blemish
- carnality
- corruption
- debasement
- debauchery
- decay
- defect
- degeneracy
- demerit
- depravity
- evil
- evildoing
- failing
- fault
- flaw
- foible
- frailty
- ill
- immorality
- imperfection
- indecency
- iniquity
- lechery
- lewdness
- libidinousness
- licentiousness
- looseness
- lubricity
- lust
- maleficence
- malignance
- mar
- offense
- perversion
- profligacy
- rot
- sensuality
- shortcoming
- squalor
- transgression
- trespass
- venality
- weak point
- wickedness
- wrong
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