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How to pronounce vice
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What does vice mean?
nounBad or immoral behaviour. (Especially often, a habit that harms oneself or others)
“Pride is a vice, not a virtue.”
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.
adjin place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
prepInstead of; in place of; versus.
“He was gardener and out-door man, vice Upton, resigned.”
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