Synonyms for Vice
ˈvaɪ si, -sə, vaɪsvice

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1. vice

   Sin is any lack of holiness, any defect of moral purity and truth, whether in heart or life, whether of commission or omission. "All unrighteousness is sin," 1 John v, 17. Transgression, as its etymology indicates, is the stepping over a specific enactment, whether of God or man, ordinarily by overt act, but in the broadest sense, in volition or desire. Sin may be either act or state; transgression is always an act, mental or physical. Crime is often used for a flagrant violation of right, but in the technical sense denotes specific violation of human law. Guilt is desert of and exposure to punishment because of sin. Depravity denotes not any action, but a perverted moral condition from which any act of sin may proceed. Sin in the generic sense, as denoting a state of heart, is synonymous with depravity; in the specific sense, as in the expression a sin, the term may be synonymous with transgression, crime, offense, misdeed, etc., or may denote some moral activity that could not be characterized by terms so positive. Immorality denotes outward violation of the moral law. Sin is thus the broadest word, and immorality next in scope; all crimes, properly so called, and all immoralities, are sins; but there may be sin, as ingratitude, which is neither crime, transgression, nor immorality; and there may be immorality which is not crime, as falsehood. Compare CRIMINAL.

   Compare synonyms for VIRTUE.

   Synonyms:
   crime, criminality, delinquency, depravity, evil, fault, guilt, ill-doing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, sin, transgression, ungodliness, unrighteousness, viciousness, wickedness, wrong, wrong-doing

   Antonyms:
   blamelessness, excellence, godliness, goodness, holiness, innocence, integrity, morality, purity, rectitude, right, righteousness, sinlessness, uprightness, virtue

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1. vice

   Synonyms:
   corruption, fault, defect, evil, crime, immorality, sin, badness

   Antonyms:
   purity, faultlessness, perfection, virtue, immaculateness, goodness, soundness

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1. frailty, vicenoun

   moral weakness

   Synonyms:
   feebleness, infirmity, debility, valetudinarianism, frailty, frailness, vice

2. vicenoun

   a specific form of evildoing

   "vice offends the moral standards of the community"

   Synonyms:
   frailty

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1. • Evil
   • Evildoing

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1. vicenoun

   Synonyms:
   defect, fault, blemish, imperfection

2. vicenoun

   Synonyms:
   wickedness, sin, iniquity, irregularity, depravity, immorality, laxity, indecorum, impropriety

3. vice

   Synonyms:
   [L.] instead of, in place of

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1. vicenoun

   Synonyms:
   sin, iniquity, licentiousness, immorality, defect, fault, blemish, imperfection

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1. List of paraphrases for "vice":

   deputy, vice-, vice-president, defect, obscene, under-, pornographic, vice-chairman, vice-chief, prostitution, mp, vice-chairperson, veep, deputies, flaw, vice-chair, vise, pornography

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1. Greg Abbott:

   Our supposed Border Czar, Vice President Kamala Harris, has yet to even visit the border to see firsthand the impact of the open border policies she has helped implement, even going so far as to claim the border is ‘secure,’ texas will continue sending migrants to sanctuary cities like Washington, D.C., until President Biden and Border Czar Harris step up and do their jobs to secure the border.

2. Nancy Dubuc:

   Vice Media Group is unacceptable, and Christene Barberich are grateful to all the people who bravely came forward to shed light on the situation.

3. President Trump:

   While everyone is entitled to Vice President Mike Pence own opinions, I don’t think it’s too much to ask NFL players to respect the Flag and our National Anthem.

4. Drew Nelson:

   She came back in and had the entire class get up and leave to go to an empty classroom down the hall and when I tried to follow … the vice principal in the hallway blocked me.

5. Fox News:

   Yes. I do believe that…Women are definitely held to a different standard, i don’t think it’s whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican though I think it happens whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican. So when you have the first woman, and the first woman of color also, who happens to be the vice president, I do think that those things…lead toextra scrutiny.