vice

IPA: vˈaɪs

noun

  • Bad or immoral behaviour.
  • (law) Any of various crimes related (depending on jurisdiction) to weapons, prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, tobacco, or drugs.
  • A defect in the temper or behaviour of a horse, such as to make the animal dangerous, to injure its health, or to diminish its usefulness.
  • A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
  • (architecture) A winding or spiral staircase.
  • (obsolete) A grip or grasp.
  • One who acts in place of a superior.
  • A surname.
  • (law enforcement, slang) Clipping of vice squad. [(law enforcement, criminology) A police section specialized in vice crimes.]
  • (UK) Alternative spelling of vise (“mechanical screw apparatus used for clamping”) [(US) An instrument consisting of two jaws, closing by a screw, lever, cam, or the like, for holding work, as in filing.]

verb

  • Alternative spelling of vise (“to hold or squeeze with a vice”) [To clamp with or as with a vise.]

adjective

  • in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
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Examples of "vice" in Sentences

  • I was what they call a vice-president from Mississippi for many years.
  • Love makes men overlook this vice (for it is a _vice_), for _a while_; but, this does not last for life.
  • When you moved from the title vice president to executive vice president, did your responsibilities change?
  • On 1 August, 1776, the Government of Spain decided to establish what it called the vice-royalty of the River Plate, under
  • Bob Kain, who held the title vice chairman and served as an advisor to Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner, has left the team.
  • While at ABC from 1957 to 1964 when he held the title vice president and general manager of sports programs, his involvement in the development of
  • When the will is concentrated upon the suppression of malice and the intensifying of love all those cults of sensation which we call vice naturally relinquish their hold upon us.
  • One source says the committee has discussed with Barker a three-year contract with the title vice-president of football operations/GM, with a team option for a three-year extension.
  • Another reported that “at a recent conference of the Scripps Northwest League editors” it was decided that “the use of such terms as gonorrhea, syphilis, and even venereal diseases would not add to the tone of the papers, and that the term vice diseases can be readily substituted.

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