Vise

Definition

vise /vaÇs/ n ( US ) = VICE 2

Examples

1. ‘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
2. and that at some period of his life he could not have understood fully.’
3. ‘Idleness is the greatest curse that can fall upon man
4. for vice and crime follow in its train.’
5. ‘He said Milthesh had tried to introduce her own daughter to the same world of vice and crime.’
6. ‘Their pleasure was not happiness
7. contemporaries charged
8. but egotism
9. immorality
10. indulgence
11. and vice.’
12. ‘We will be frequently using these orders to combat vice and the directly-associated crime.’
13. ‘In adults this streak gives away to double-standards
14. greed and vice.’
15. ‘Machiavelli sometimes associates these passions and desires which are inherent to human nature with vice and corruption and immoral
16. blameworthy
17. wicked
18. and dishonourable conduct.’
19. ‘Racial attitudes existed parallel to hardening attitudes towards immorality and vice
20. which required the same segregation that racial separation would soon require as well.’
21. ‘It waged holy war on the devil's kingdom of unbelief
22. and sought to bring the ‘vast continent of vice
23. crime and misery’ that was London's East End to salvation.’
24. ‘Quoting Proverbs
25. the priest said virtue would elevate a nation to a higher plane
26. while vice would degrade it.’
27. ‘Divorce
28. hitherto a rarity
29. suddenly took off like a rocket and
30. as this plague of immorality and vice swept right across the western world
31. movie makers jumped on the bandwagon.’
32. ‘That iron belief prompted them to try to curb what they clearly understood as vice and depravity.’
33. ‘In Paton's novel
34. liquor
35. the lifeblood of the slumyards
36. breeds crime
37. vice
38. and violence.’
39. ‘Crime
40. vice and violence flourished
41. until Bow moved upmarket too and the fair was closed forever in the 1820s.’
42. ‘The place was crowded with men and women
43. many of them bearing on their faces the marks of vice and crime; some were drunk.’
44. ‘You cannot live a good life
45. a virtuous life
46. by avoiding or ignoring the world of vice
47. sin and sleaze.’
48. ‘In 1924 Congress effectively outlawed heroin
49. which
50. like smoking opium
51. was associated with vice and crime.’
52. ‘Such children in rural areas help their parents on subsistence farms
53. while in the shanty areas of towns school dropouts engage in petty street vending
54. with the ever present risk of drifting into crime and vice.’
55. ‘From the '20s to the '50s
56. Montreal was considered by American police to be a haven of vice and decadence.’
57. ‘He was being investigated on suspicion of vice
58. gambling
59. crimes of violence