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vice

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Synonyms and Antonyms of vice

1 immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society

a unit in the police department assigned to focus on vice

Synonyms of vice

corruption, debauchery, depravity, immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, 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

honesty, honor, integrity, legitimacy, probity, rectitude, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, uprightness

goodness, righteousness, virtuousness

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, fault, foible, frailty, shortcoming, sin, want, weakness

Words Related to vice

blot, spot, stain

blemish, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, minus, nit

Achilles' heel, soft spot

corruption, depravity, evil, immorality, sinfulness, wickedness

Phrases Synonymous with vice

feet of clay

Near Antonyms of vice

excellence, perfection

goodness, integrity, morality, probity, rectitude, righteousness

Antonyms of vice

Synonym Discussion of vice

fault, failing, frailty, foible, vice mean an imperfection or weakness of character. fault implies a failure, not necessarily culpable, to reach some standard of perfection in disposition, action, or habit.

- a writer of many virtues and few faults

failing suggests a minor shortcoming in character.

- being late is a failing of mine

frailty implies a general or chronic proneness to yield to temptation.

- human frailties

foible applies to a harmless or endearing weakness or idiosyncrasy.

- an eccentric's charming foibles

vice can be a general term for any imperfection or weakness, but it often suggests violation of a moral code or the giving of offense to the moral sensibilities of others.

- compulsive gambling was his vice

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