vice
/vʌɪs/
US pronunciation
American sound/vʌɪs/
vice
- Syllables
- 1 syllable
- Stress
- One strong syllable
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
US voice -> vice
Myanmar meaning
အကုသိုလ် ဒုစရိုက်။ ၎င်းပုံစံ။ အားနည်းချက်။ စိတ်အလိုလိုက်ခြင်း။ လက်အစားကိုင်တွယ် ညှပ်ထားရန် အသုံးပြုရသည့် ညှပ်တစ်မျိုး။ နောက်မှ ဆက်ခံသော။
Full entry
၁။ (က) [U] မကောင်းမှု။ ဒုစရိုက်။ sink into a life of vice. (ခ) [C] မကောင်းမှု။ ဒုစရိုက်။ Greed is a terrible vice. Compare VIRTUE ၁
၂။ [C] (infml or joc ) အကျင့်ဆိုး။ (ဗန်း) သောက်ကျင့်။ Chocolates are one of my little vices!
၃။ [U] (မူးယစ်ဆေးဝါး၊ လောင်းကစားနှင့် ပြည့်တန်ဆာကိစ္စ) ပြစ်မှု။ He was arrested by the vice squad for drug-trafficking.
ပြုတ်တူ။ (fig ) He held my arm in a vice-like (ie very firm) grip.
၁။ ဒုတိယ။ vice-president ❍ vice-chancellor.
၂။ ဒုတိယ။ vice admiral.
More examples
- ‘Goethe is said to have said of himself that there was no vice or crime of which he could not trace the tendency in himself, and that at some period of his life he could not have understood fully.’
- ‘Idleness is the greatest curse that can fall upon man, for vice and crime follow in its train.’
- ‘He said Milthesh had tried to introduce her own daughter to the same world of vice and crime.’
- ‘Their pleasure was not happiness, contemporaries charged, but egotism, immorality, indulgence, and vice.’
- ‘We will be frequently using these orders to combat vice and the directly-associated crime.’
- ‘In adults this streak gives away to double-standards, greed and vice.’
- ‘Machiavelli sometimes associates these passions and desires which are inherent to human nature with vice and corruption and immoral, blameworthy, wicked, and dishonourable conduct.’
- ‘Racial attitudes existed parallel to hardening attitudes towards immorality and vice, which required the same segregation that racial separation would soon require as well.’
- ‘It waged holy war on the devil's kingdom of unbelief, and sought to bring the ‘vast continent of vice, crime and misery’ that was London's East End to salvation.’
- ‘Quoting Proverbs, the priest said virtue would elevate a nation to a higher plane, while vice would degrade it.’
- ‘Divorce, hitherto a rarity, suddenly took off like a rocket and, as this plague of immorality and vice swept right across the western world, movie makers jumped on the bandwagon.’
- ‘That iron belief prompted them to try to curb what they clearly understood as vice and depravity.’
- ‘In Paton's novel, liquor, the lifeblood of the slumyards, breeds crime, vice, and violence.’
- ‘Crime, vice and violence flourished, until Bow moved upmarket too and the fair was closed forever in the 1820s.’
- ‘The place was crowded with men and women, many of them bearing on their faces the marks of vice and crime; some were drunk.’
- ‘You cannot live a good life, a virtuous life, by avoiding or ignoring the world of vice, sin and sleaze.’
- ‘In 1924 Congress effectively outlawed heroin, which, like smoking opium, was associated with vice and crime.’
- ‘Such children in rural areas help their parents on subsistence farms, while in the shanty areas of towns school dropouts engage in petty street vending, with the ever present risk of drifting into crime and vice.’
- ‘From the '20s to the '50s, Montreal was considered by American police to be a haven of vice and decadence.’
- ‘He was being investigated on suspicion of vice, gambling, crimes of violence
Synonyms
associate, subordinate, secondary, junior, sub-, badness, be evil, blemish, carnality, commit sacrilege, commit sin, corruption, debasement, debauchery, decay, defect, degeneracy, demerit, depravity, do wrong, evil, evildoing, failing, fault, flaw, foible, frailty, ill, immorality, imperfection, indecency, iniquity, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, licentiousness, looseness, lubricity, lust, maleficence, malignance, mar, mudsling, offense, perversion, profane, profligacy, put double whammy on, rot, sensuality, shortcoming, sin, squalor, talk dirty, tar, transgression, trashed, trespass, venality, voodooed, weak point, weakness, wickedness, wrong
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