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

2. vicenoun

   a specific form of evildoing

   "vice offends the moral standards of the community"

   Synonyms:
   frailty

Matched Categories

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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How to use vice in a sentence?

1. Kurt Volker:

   In hindsight, I now understand that others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption involving the Ukrainian company,' Burisma,' as equivalent to investigating former Vice President Hunter Biden, i saw them as very different -- the former being appropriate and unremarkable, the latter being unacceptable.

2. Colin Campbell:

   Indeed, the Founders mentioned the pagan authors in so many heartfelt speeches, pamphlets and letters that today's sweeping references to America's 'Christian' roots and 'Judeo-Christian heritage' ought to be amended. Maybe these terms should be reserved to explain the traditional religions and morality of individuals, families, congregations, small communitities. Politically, our notions of virtue and vice have had another genesis.

3. Patrick Adam:

   Argentina is already making cars for the Brazilian market and vice versa, so that will simplify operations.

4. Joseph Addison:

   Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

5. Mike Pence:

   The White House doctor has indicated he has no reason to believe that I was exposed and no need to be tested, given the unique position I have as vice president and as the leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, both I and my wife will be tested for the coronavirus later this afternoon.