vice

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I told him that he had no fault; that the one action that I had called a vice was an heroic exhibition of regard for my interest.

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  1. noun An evil, degrading, or immoral practice or habit.
  2. noun A serious moral failing.
  3. noun Wicked or evil conduct or habits; corruption.
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  • If the white light goes on, it means the vice are here, stop dancing. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • About 200 years ago, one of our founding fathers, two-term vice president and one-term president John Adams, called the vice presidency, "the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." —  The Daily Aztec RSS
  • He accepted the invitation on August 4th, Miller added, "before the campaign heated up and before his dad was named the vice-presidential nominee." —  The Daily Pennsylvanian
  • If illegal drugs are your vice, that is a criminal matter and not one that taxpayers should subsidize.
  • Tamilnadu's S Badrinath has been named the vice-captain while former Indian openers Wasim Jaffer and Aakash Chopra will be tried out in the warm-up game against Australia to keep the selectors 'options open for the forthcoming series. —  Top Stories - Google News
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vitium.
  2. Latin ablative of *vix, change; see vice-.

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  1. from Middle English vice, vyce, from Old French vice, French vice = Spanish Portuguese vicio = Italian vizio, from Latin vitium, Middle Latin also vicium, a vice, fault; root uncertain. Hence ult. vicious, vitiate.
  2. from vice-, prefix, in the words concerned.
  3. from Latin vice, in the place (of), instead (of) (followed by a genitive), ablative of *vix, genitive vicis, etc., change, alternation, akin to Greek εῐκειν, yield, Anglo-Saxon wīcan, etc., yield: see weak, wick, wicker.
 

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