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  • adjective Without vice.

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Examples

  • I am your viceless, taxpaying, family man of faith – you, in an afternoon dream.

    Think Progress » O’Reilly on ThinkProgress: ‘All Decent Americans Should Reject These Haters’ 2006

  • It is one of the qualities his fans find most endearing: Mr. Gervais — a chubby, irritable, viceless, dark, British, atheist genius — laughs like a 9-year-old girl.

    The Great Gervais 2007

  • I. 6, not unlike her erratic mother in appearance, but viceless.

    Tam o' the Scoots Edgar Wallace 1903

  • He gasps; he wonders whether the English _mees_ is as innocent as she looks -- or used to look -- and does not know the _perfide_ tongue of the _perfide Albion_ well enough to be aware that nothing shocking is said, and that it is pretended that the _cocotte_ is a mere kindly friend, the _collage_ a trifling flirtation, the _debauche_ a viceless lark, and that the foulest conduct of husband or wife does not reach a real breach of the commandment more often broken in England than the rest of the sacred ten.

    Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Edward Fordham Spence 1896

  • The Market Street Oyster Bar, in Salt Lake City, which is otherwise apparently viceless, makes a big thing of New Zealand orange roughy (avoid), a fish that lives to be 140 if you let it, but doesn’t reproduce until the age of 28.

    Terms of Endangerment Clover, Charles 2008

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