Definition of Vice

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Definition of Vice

Vice

A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.

A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.

The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.

A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.

A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.

A gripe or grasp.

To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.

In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.

Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.

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Vice Quotations

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
George Washington

Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
William Shakespeare

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Thomas Paine

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
William Blake

Vice Translations

vice in Dutch is ondeugd, gebrek
vice in French is vice, vertu
vice in German is Schraubstock, entgegen, Laster, Schraubstock
vice in Italian is vizio
vice in Latin is vitium
vice in Portuguese is virtude

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