Vice is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VICE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to grip with a special tool
• To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
• grip (something) with or as if with a vice
PREPOSITION:
• as a substitute for
• In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
• Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.
• instead of
NOUN:
• immoral or wicked behaviour
• criminal activities involving prostitution, pornography, or drugs
• an immoral or wicked personal characteristic
• a weakness of character or behaviour; a bad habit
• a bad or neurotic habit of stabled horses, typically arising as a result of boredom.
• a metal tool with movable jaws which are used to hold an object firmly in place while work is done on it, typically attached to a workbench
• immoral or evil habit or action
• A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
• A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
• The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
• A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
• A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
• A gripe or grasp.
• moral weakness
• a specific form of evildoing
ADJECTIVE:
• serving in place of
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to vise

Words related to VICE

viced11 viceless13 vicelike17 vices10 vicing12 viselike15

How to use VICE in a sentence

• The Morality generally ended in the triumph of virtue, the devil leaping into hell-mouth with Vice on his back.
• Then she met with other names, that of her uncle Eugene, the former vice emperor, now dead, the cure of Saint-Eutrope, who, she had been told yesterday, was dying of consumption.
• Accordingly, Avarice is the vice of age, just as extravagance is the vice of youth.
• But Washington at once began to consult the Chief Justice, the Vice President, his three secretaries, and the Attorney-general on matters of importance.
• But the North demanded more, and in 1827 another tariff bill was prevented from passing only by the casting vote of Vice President Calhoun.
• In fact, he has nothing else to learn except to do with his right limbs what he has previously done with the left, and vice versa.
• The political police never interfere with the other branch, and vice versa.
• For we must remember that it is the nature of vice to force itself upon notice, both in the act and by its consequences.
• As it is easier to fall from virtue to vice than it is to rise from vice to virtue, so it is easier to fall from patriotism than to rise to it.
• The prison is a battle-field of vice and virtue, with the advantage of position and numbers on the side of vice.
• The hair on the right half of her head should be combed while the head rests on the left side, and vice versa.
• To separate the subtile from the gross, in the first operation, which is wholly internal, is to free our soul from all prejudice and all vice.
• Strange! As if one generation paid in vice and folly for the genius of the past.
• A work will be successful in proportion as the chisel shall be most indefatigable in putting in relief the virtue or the vice which characterizes the subject.
• If there were those who because of idleness and vice were indisposed to provide for themselves, we should find a way of inspiring them with a better mind.
• Seneca considered, that vice made insensible approaches by means of the stage, and that it stole on the people in the disguise of pleasure.

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