vice
恶习,副业,恶行,恶习习
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- : an immoral or evil habit or practice: The biblical verses cover the vices of boastfulness and pride, miserliness, and hypocrisy.
- : immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: In the Christian religion there are numerous instances of sudden conversions from a life of vice to one of virtue.
- : sexual immorality, especially prostitution.
- : a particular form of depravity.
- : a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style.
- : a bad habit, as in a horse.
- : a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.
- : Archaic. a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: In most cases, attempts to relieve the symptoms will be of little avail without at the same time relieving or removing the constitutional vice which has induced this condition.
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Examples
The vice president would sometimes dial her cellphone, Troye said.
“There was a lot of shifting around,” says Gary Davies, pro vice chancellor for student recruitment.
If they can’t do it by January 20, then power goes to the vice president, who’s selected by a majority vote of senators.
Last year, Apple tapped Sabih Khan, 54, as senior vice president of operations.
He named notorious homophobe Mike Pence as his vice president, who famously signed a bill as Indiana governor allowing businesses to discriminate against LGBTQ customers.
With Vice, that was an example of you keeping yourself interested too, right?
BEST ACTOR Joaquin Phoenix, Inherent Vice There is no better actor—right now—than Joaquin Phoenix.
Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President of the Fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.
Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, summed up the Southern attitude in his 1861 Cornerstone Speech.
“We look for the qualities that are evocative of V.S.O.P Privilege,” explained Hennessy Senior Vice President Rodney Williams.
When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.