vice

1 immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society that section of the city is legendary for crime and vice Synonyms of vice corruption, debauchery, depravity, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, libertinage, libertinism, licentiousness, profligacy, sin Words Related to vice bad, badness, blackness, evil, evildoing, ill, turpitude, villainy, wickedness, wrong; atrociousness, evilness, heinousness, sinfulness, unscrupulousness, viciousness, vileness, villainousness; devilry (or deviltry), fiendishness; corruptness, debasement, degeneracy, degeneration, depravedness, dissoluteness, dissolution; indecency, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, looseness, perversion, pervertedness, wantonness; abomination, anathema, taboo (also tabu); criminality, reprehensibleness; baseness, despicableness, dirtiness, lowness, meanness; lousiness, miserableness, wretchedness Near Antonyms of vice good, right; honesty, honor, integrity, legitimacy, probity, rectitude, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness; goodness, righteousness, virtuousness; blamelessness; chastity, innocence, perfection, pureness, purity, spotlessness; cleanness, correctness, decency, decorousness, propriety, rightness, seemliness Antonyms of vice morality, virtue

2 a defect in character curiosity in children is not a vice, but something to be encouraged Synonyms of vice demerit, dereliction, failing, foible, frailty, shortcoming, sin, fault, want, weaknessWords Related to vice blot, spot, stain; blemish, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, minus, nit; Achilles' heel, soft spot; corruption, depravity, evil, immorality, sinfulness, wickednessNear Antonyms of vice excellence, perfection; goodness, integrity, morality, probity, rectitude, righteousnessAntonyms of vice merit, virtue

3 the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money a seedy section of the city where vice is rampant and very much out in the open Synonyms of vice harlotry, prostitution, whoredomWords Related to vice demimonde; white slavery