Vice
A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
A gripe or grasp.
To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
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Vice Quotations
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Adam Smith
Vice Translations
vice in Dutch is ondeugd, gebrek
vice in French is vice, vertu
vice in German is Schraubstock, entgegen, Laster, Schraubstock
vice in Italian is vizio
vice in Latin is vitium
vice in Portuguese is virtude
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