Synonyms for vice
ˈvaɪ si, -sə, vaɪsvice

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1. vice

   Sin is any lack of holiness, any defect of moral purity and truth, whether in heart or life, whether of commission or omission. "All unrighteousness is sin," 1 John v, 17. Transgression, as its etymology indicates, is the stepping over a specific enactment, whether of God or man, ordinarily by overt act, but in the broadest sense, in volition or desire. Sin may be either act or state; transgression is always an act, mental or physical. Crime is often used for a flagrant violation of right, but in the technical sense denotes specific violation of human law. Guilt is desert of and exposure to punishment because of sin. Depravity denotes not any action, but a perverted moral condition from which any act of sin may proceed. Sin in the generic sense, as denoting a state of heart, is synonymous with depravity; in the specific sense, as in the expression a sin, the term may be synonymous with transgression, crime, offense, misdeed, etc., or may denote some moral activity that could not be characterized by terms so positive. Immorality denotes outward violation of the moral law. Sin is thus the broadest word, and immorality next in scope; all crimes, properly so called, and all immoralities, are sins; but there may be sin, as ingratitude, which is neither crime, transgression, nor immorality; and there may be immorality which is not crime, as falsehood. Compare CRIMINAL.

   Compare synonyms for VIRTUE.

   Synonyms:
   crime, criminality, delinquency, depravity, evil, fault, guilt, ill-doing, immorality, iniquity, misdeed, offense, sin, transgression, ungodliness, unrighteousness, viciousness, wickedness, wrong, wrong-doing

   Antonyms:
   blamelessness, excellence, godliness, goodness, holiness, innocence, integrity, morality, purity, rectitude, right, righteousness, sinlessness, uprightness, virtue

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1. vice

   Synonyms:
   corruption, fault, defect, evil, crime, immorality, sin, badness

   Antonyms:
   purity, faultlessness, perfection, virtue, immaculateness, goodness, soundness

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1. frailty, vicenoun

   moral weakness

   Synonyms:
   feebleness, infirmity, debility, valetudinarianism, frailty, frailness

2. vicenoun

   a specific form of evildoing

   "vice offends the moral standards of the community"

   Synonyms:
   frailty

Matched Categories

1. • Evil
   • Evildoing

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1. vicenoun

   Synonyms:
   defect, fault, blemish, imperfection

2. vicenoun

   Synonyms:
   wickedness, sin, iniquity, irregularity, depravity, immorality, laxity, indecorum, impropriety

3. vice

   Synonyms:
   [L.] instead of, in place of

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1. vicenoun

   Synonyms:
   sin, iniquity, licentiousness, immorality, defect, fault, blemish, imperfection

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1. List of paraphrases for "vice":

   deputy, vice-, vice-president, defect, obscene, under-, pornographic, vice-chairman, vice-chief, prostitution, mp, vice-chairperson, veep, deputies, flaw, vice-chair, vise, pornography

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1. Anthony Fauci:

   Vice President Mike Pence's listening to us when we say we really got to reevaluate it, in real time, and any decision we make has to be based on the data.

2. Dan Quayle:

   One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   Vice President Biden should have the space and the opportunity to decide what Vice President Biden wants to do, i ’m going to be running for president regardless.

4. Liz Cheney:

   Vice President Pence understood Mike Pence oath of office was more important than Mike Pence loyalty to President Trump. Mike Pence did Mike Pence duty, that declaration of Donald Trump as the next president would have plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis in America.

5. Bernie Sanders:

   I think anyone who looks at the vice president's record understands that time after time after time, Joe has talked about the need to cut Social Security, that's in the congressional record. He has said that many, many times. I don't think that's disputable.