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Vice

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Main Entry: vice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: bad habit; sin

Synonyms:

carnality, corruption, debasement, debauchery, decay, degeneracy, depravity, evil, evildoing, ill, immorality, indecency, iniquity, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, lust, maleficence, malignance, offense, perversion, profligacy, rot, sensuality, squalor, transgression, trespass, venality, wickedness, wrong
Notes: a vice is a harmful or nasty habit or action; a vise is a heavy clamp with jaws opened and shut by a lever or screw

Antonyms:

good point, propriety, virtue
Main Entry: vice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: weakness

Synonyms:

blemish, defect, demerit, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, imperfection, mar, shortcoming, weak point

Antonyms:

good point, strength
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Vice.
Category: 3. Moral conditions

Synonyms:

-nouns
vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness; iniquity, peccability, demerit; sin, Adam; old Adam, offending Adam., immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality (malevolence); corruption (debasement); knavery (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity., infirmity; weakness; weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot., den of iniquity, Alsatian den, sink of iniquity, sink of corruption, lowest dregs of vice; gusto picaresco; sewer, gutter, hellhole; brothel; gambling house; joint, pit, opium den, crack house; Sodom, Gomorrah, Babylon, Sin City., fault, crime; criminality (guilt)., sinner.
-verbs
be vicious; sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgfress; misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself; misdo, misbehave; fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass; deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue [more]; take a wrong course, go astray; hug a sin, hug a fault; sow one's wild oats., render vicious; demoralize, brutalize; corrupt (degrade).
-adjectives
vicious; sinful; sinning; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous, undutiful., unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncomendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic., base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villanous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed., Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish., miscreated, misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved., evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent; heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity., incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible (guilty).
-adverbs
wrong; sinfully; without excuse.
-phrases
alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Vergil]; genus est mortis male vivere [Ovid]; mala mens malus animus [Terence]; nemo repente fuit turpissimus; "the trail of the serpent is over them all" [Moore]; "to sanction vice and hunt decorum down"

Antonyms:

virtue
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Main Entry: blemish
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: flaw

Synonyms:

beauty spot, birthmark, blackhead, blister, bloom*, blot, blot on the landscape, blotch, blur, brand, bruise, bug*, catch, chip, cicatrix, defacement, defect, deformity, dent, discoloration, disfigurement, disgrace, dishonor, eyesore, fault, freckle, hickey, imperfection, impurity, lentigo, lump, macula, maculation, mark, mole, nevus, nodule, patch, pimple, pock, pockmark, scar, second, sight, smudge, snag, speck, speckle, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, vice, wart, whitehead, zit

Antonyms:

adornment, decoration, embellishment, ornament
Main Entry: brace
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: support

Synonyms:

arm, band, bar, bearing, block, bolster, boom, bracer, bracket, buttress, cantilever, clamp, girder, grip, guy, lever, mainstay, peg, prop, rafter, reinforcement, rib, shore, skid, splice, splint, staff, stanchion, stave, stay, stirrup, strengthener, strut, sustainer, truss, underpinning, vice
Main Entry: clamp
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fastener

Synonyms:

bracket, catch, clasp, grip, hold, lock, nipper, press, snap, vice
Main Entry: corruption
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: baseness

Synonyms:

atrocity, decadence, degeneration, degradation, depravity, evil, immorality, impurity, infamy, iniquity, looseness, lubricity, perversion, profligacy, sinfulness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vulgarity, wickedness

Antonyms:

decency, goodness, honor, kindness, wholesomeness
Main Entry: crime
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: offense against the law

Synonyms:

abomination, antisocial behavior, atrocity, breach, break, caper, case, corruption, criminality, delict, delictum, delinquency, depravity, dereliction, enormity, evil, evil behavior, fast one, fault, felony, hit, illegality, immorality, infraction, infringement, iniquity, job, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, misconduct, misdeed, misdemeanor, mortal sin, outrage, racket, scandal, sneak, tort, transgression, trespass, unlawful act, vice, villainy, violation, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing
Notes: crime is from Latin crimen 'judgment, accusation, offense' and a crime is an act in violation of a law; a misdemeanor is a less serious crime while a felony is a major crime

Antonyms:

good deed, kindness
Main Entry: default
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: failure; want

Synonyms:

absence, blemish, blunder, dearth, defect, deficiency, delinquency, dereliction, disregard, error, fault, imperfection, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, lapse, miss, neglect, nonpayment, offense, omission, overlooking, oversight, privation, shortcoming, slight, transgression, vice, weakness, wrongdoing

Antonyms:

advantage, payment, perfection, satisfaction, success
Main Entry: defect
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blemish, imperfection

Synonyms:

birthmark, blot, blotch, break, bug, catch, check, crack, deficiency, deformity, discoloration, drawback, error, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, gap, glitch, gremlin, hole, infirmity, injury, irregularity, kink, knot, lack, mark, marring, mistake, patch, rift, rough spot, scar, scarcity, scratch, seam, second, shortage, shortcoming, sin, speck, spot, stain, taint, unsoundness, vice, want, weak point, weakness

Antonyms:

advantage, improvement, perfection, strength
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