VICE Synonyms

• lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

• in a state of progressive putrefaction

• decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

• destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

• inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)

• a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity

• the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

• a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice

• breaking up and scattering by dispersion

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

• useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly

• indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures

• morally bad or wrong

• morally objectionable behavior

• the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice

• having the nature of vice

• having or exerting a malignant influence

• a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention

• an imperfection in an object or machine

• the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection

• (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

• (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.)

• responsibility for a bad situation or event

• (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area)

• put or pin the blame on

• the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct

• morally objectionable behavior

• morally objectionable behavior

• an unjust act

• the quality of being lewd and lascivious

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

• doing or causing evil

• the quality or nature of being harmful or evil

• wrongful conduct by a public official

• bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf

• activity that transgresses moral or civil law

• behave badly

• manage badly or incompetently

• improper or wicked or immoral behavior

• a crime less serious than a felony

• the quality of being wicked

• a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others

• a feeling of anger caused by being offended

• a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right

• the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score

• the action of attacking an enemy

• the trait of spending extravagantly

• dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure