vice

Roget-categorie 945

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
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#945. Vice

zelfstandig naamwoord

vice — evil-doing, evil courses — wrongdoing — wickedness, viciousness etc. adj. — iniquity, peccability^†, demerit — sin, Adam^† — old Adam^†, offending Adam^†.
immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals — enphagy^†, dophagy^†, exophagy^† — want of principle, want of ballast — obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity^†, depravity, pollution — hardness of heart — brutality etc. (malevolence) 907 — corruption etc. (debasement) 659 — knavery etc. (improbity) 940^† — profligacy — flagrancy, atrocity — cannibalism — lesbianism, Sadism.
infirmity — weakness etc. adj. — weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection — error — weak side — foible — failing, failure — crying sin, besetting sin — defect, deficiency — cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den^† — gusto picaresco [It].
fault, crime — criminality etc. (guilt) 947.
sinner etc. 949.
[Resorts] brothel etc. 961 — gambling house etc. 621 — joint [Slang], opium den, shooting gallery, crack house.

werkwoord

be vicious etc. adj. — sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress — misdemean oneself^†, forget oneself, misconduct oneself — misdo^†, misbehave — fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass — deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue etc. 944 — take a wrong course, go astray — hug a sin, hug a fault — sow one's wild oats.
render vicious etc. adj. — demoralize, brutalize — corrupt etc. (degrade) 659.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

vicious — sinful — sinning etc. v. — wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal — naughty, incorrect — unduteous^†, undutiful.
unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores [Lat.], indecorous, unseemly, improper — dissolute, profligate, scampish — unworthy — worthless — desertless^† — disgraceful, recreant — reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable — discreditable, disreputable — Sadistic.
base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous^†, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous — flagrant, flagitious — atrocious, incarnate, accursed.
Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike^†, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.
miscreated^†, misbegotten — demoralized, corrupt, depraved.
evil-minded, evil-disposed — ill-conditioned — malevolent etc. 907 — heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless — abandoned, lost to virtue — unconscionable — sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity.
incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for — culpable, reprehensible etc. (guilty) 947.
unjustifiable — indefensible, inexcusable — inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible^†.
weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect — indiscrete — demoralizing, degrading.

bijwoord

wrong — sinfully etc. adj. — without excuse.

tussenwerpsel

O tempora! ^†, O mores!,

uitdrukking

alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Vergil]; genus est mortis male vivere [Lat.] [Ovid]; mala mens malus animus [Lat.] [Terence]; nemo repente fuit turpissimus [Lat.] — the trail of the serpent is over them all" [Moore]; to sanction vice and hunt decorum down" [Bryon].

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