VICES Synonyms

• (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act

• an evil act not necessarily punishable by law

• a mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces

• the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

• a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice

• the quality of being dishonest

• lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

• 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

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

• morally objectionable behavior

• morally objectionable behavior

• an unjust act

• a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government)

• illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law

• 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

• an attribute of mischievous children

• 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

• estrangement from god

• (Akkadian) god of the Moon; counterpart of Sumerian Nanna

• an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will

• ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle

• the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet

• commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

• commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake

• estrangement from god

• the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

• the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata

• the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit

• impiety by virtue of not being a godly person

• moral weakness

• a specific form of evildoing