VICES Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

vices

noun

plural of vice

as in weaknesses

a defect in character curiosity in children is not a vice, but something to be encouraged

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as in prostitutions

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

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Recent Examples of vices The latter track takes overt inspiration from Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette, as Jepsen beckons her love to engage in life’s vices with her, like marring bedsheets with fruit stains and dashing nude through the garden. — Jaeden Pinder, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026 Holden eagerly rebels against Pencey Prep, gets the boot, and flees to New York City, a place with its own vices and hazards, but without the sort of propaganda and pretense that obscure the school’s dark underside. — Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026 The long-standing problem is that Skid Row is both a social service center and a mecca of drugs and other vices, with traps on every block. — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026 To many critics, that sounds like a high-tech form of lowbrow gambling, a new way to bring the vices of Vegas right to your phone. — Max Raskin, Washington Post, 28 June 2026 Table 1 provides descriptors of the deficient, virtuous, and excess vices of Integrity. — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 The league’s complaint against Texas Tech spends considerable energy preaching about the vices of college athletes betting on sports. — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 17 June 2026 The therapist conceals her own malignant vices behind smiles and warmth, and the two share secrets that neither is prepared for. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 May 2026 The world will always offer us vices and some will have trouble staying away. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Mar. 2026

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Noun

Your organization’s weaknesses may be structural, such as an overreliance on a single revenue stream.

— Nancy Padberg, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Some programs use non-conference play to stack wins, while the more competitive programs use non-conference games as an opportunity to find potential weaknesses.

— Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of weaknesses

Noun

Recently, Qnetic completed its first 100 continuous charge-discharge cycles with zero faults or degradation, a key indicator of its reliability.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
The team suspects the increase in the rate and intensity of earthquakes shows that Earth’s crust did not return to normal after the final test in 2017, but instead seismicity increased as at least two preexisting faults became active, Kim said.

— Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of faults

Noun

Kaporos is intended to symbolize the transfer of one’s sins to a chicken.

— Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 20 Sep. 2026
The sins of the father are ultimately presented in a literal, stomach-churning slideshow that haphazardly alternates benign family snaps with gleeful photographic evidence of Johan’s war crimes.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 Sep. 2026