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vi·ce3    Audio Help   [vahy-see, -suh, vahys] Pronunciation Key
–preposition
instead of; in the place of.
[Origin: 1760–70; < L: instead of, abl. of vicis (gen.; not attested in nom.) interchange, alternation]
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vice2    Audio Help   [vahys] Pronunciation Key,
–noun, verb (used with object), viced, vic·ing.
vise.
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vice1    Audio Help   [vahys] Pronunciation Key,
–noun
1.an immoral or evil habit or practice.
2.immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: a life of vice.
3.sexual immorality, esp. prostitution.
4.a particular form of depravity.
5.a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style.
6.a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: a constitutional vice.
7.a bad habit, as in a horse.
8.(initial capital letter) a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.
[Origin: 1250–1300; ME < AF, OF < L vitium a fault, defect, vice]

—Synonyms 1. See fault. 2. depravity, sin, iniquity, wickedness, corruption. 5. blemish.
—Antonyms 1, 2. virtue.
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Main Entry:  vice
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  blemish, carnality, corruption, crime, defect, depravity, evil, failing, fault, flaw, foible, immorality, imperfection, iniquity, replacing, shortcoming, sin, weakness, wrong
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Main Entry:  corruption
Part of Speech:  noun
Definition:  Degrading, immoral acts or habits.
Synonyms:  bestiality, depravity, flagitiousness, immorality, perversion, turpitude, villainousness, villainy, wickedness
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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