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vice
Synonyms and Antonyms of vice
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immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society
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
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a defect in character
demerit, dereliction, failing, fault, foible, frailty, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness
feet of clay
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the practice of engaging in sexual activities for money
Synonym Discussion of vice
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- a writer of many virtues and few faults
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- being late is a failing of mine
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- human frailties
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- an eccentric's charming foibles
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- compulsive gambling was his vice
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