vice (n.)
- advocate
- alternate
- attorney
- backup
- badness
- blemish
- champion
- corruption
- crime
- criminality
- debasement
- debauchery
- decay
- defect
- deficiency
- degeneracy
- degradation
- depravity
- deputy
- discourtesy
- disorder
- disorderliness
- disruption
- dummy
- evil
- evildoing
- exponent
- failing
- failure
- fault
- figurehead
- flaw
- foible
- for
- frailty
- hooliganism
- horseplay
- ill
- immorality
- imperfection
- impropriety
- indecency
- infirmity
- iniquity
- licentiousness
- lieutenant
- locum
- malfeasance
- malpractice
- malversation
- misbehavior
- misconduct
- misdemeanor
- misfeasance
- naughtiness
- perversion
- pleader
- procurator
- profligacy
- proxy
- replacing
- representative
- rot
- rowdiness
- rowdyism
- ruffianism
- secondary
- shortcoming
- sin
- sinfulness
- squalor
- stand-in
- substitute
- surrogate
- transgression
- understudy
- vandalism
- venality
- vicar
- vicegerent
- viciousness
- villainy
- weakness
- wickedness
- wrong
- wrongdoing
vice (v.)
vice (adj.)
I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give,
Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.
As aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crush'd or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
I hear you reproach, "But delay was best,
For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do
As well, I reply, to serve for a test
As a virtue golden through and through,
Sufficient to vindicate itself
And prove its worth at a moment's view!
. . . . .
Let a man contend to the uttermost
For his life's set prize, be it what it will!
The counter our lovers staked was lost
As surely as if it were lawful coin;
And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost
Is—the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin,
Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.
Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round,
And gather'd every vice on Christian ground.
So for a good old-gentlemanly vice
I think I must take up with avarice.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice,—almighty gold.
Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind;
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,—
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honour is a private station.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
That reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years.
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give,
Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
