Vice (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. an immoral or evil habit or practice: These biblical verses cover the vices of boastfulness and pride, miserliness, and hypocrisy.
  2. immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: In the Christian religion there are numerous instances of sudden conversions from a life of vice to one of virtue.
  3. sexual immorality, especially prostitution.
  4. a particular form of depravity.
  5. a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style.
  6. (of a horse’s behavior) a bad habit: Allowing your horse turnout in a paddock may prevent vices such as weaving or wood chewing normally observed in a stall.
  7. vice squad: Detective Crockett was reassigned from the Robbery Division to Vice last year.
  8. a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.
  9. a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: In most cases, attempts to relieve the symptoms will be of little avail without at the same time relieving or removing the constitutional vice which has induced this condition.
adjective
  1. of or relating to the vice squad, or to the threats to public order it is tasked to police, such as gambling, pornography, prostitution, and narcotics: a vice cop;the vice division of the police department.
noun, verb (used with object), viced, vic·ing.
  1. vise.
preposition
  1. instead of; in the place of: The committee was reorganized, with Mr. Silver, vice Mr. Cooper, as the head.
  1. a combining form meaning “deputy,” used in the formation of compound words, usually titles of officials who serve in the absence of the official denoted by the base word: viceroy; vice-chancellor.
noun
  1. an immoral, wicked, or evil habit, action, or trait
  2. habitual or frequent indulgence in pernicious, immoral, or degrading practices
  3. a specific form of pernicious conduct, esp prostitution or sexual perversion
  4. a failing or imperfection in character, conduct, etc
  5. any physical defect or imperfection
  6. a bad trick or disposition, as of horses, dogs, etc
noun
  1. an appliance for holding an object while work is done upon it, usually having a pair of jaws
verb
  1. to grip (something) with or as if with a vice
adjective
    • serving in the place of or as a deputy for
    • (in combination)
noun
  1. a person who serves as a deputy to another
preposition
  1. instead of; as a substitute for
noun
  1. (in English morality plays) a character personifying a particular vice or vice in general
Vice (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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