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Myanmar Meaning

ရေပေးဝေမှု စနစ်တွင် အဓိကပိုက်လိုင်း။

Definition

vice 1 / vaÇs / n ၁။ (က) [U] မေကာင္းမႈ။ ဒုစ႐ိုက္။ sink into a life of vice. (ခ) [C] မေကာင္းမႈ။ ဒုစ႐ိုက္။ Greed is a terrible vice. Compare VIRTUE ၁ ၂။ [C] ( infml or joc ) အက်င့္ဆိုး။ (ဗန္း) ေသာက္က်င့္။ Chocolates are one of my little vices! ၃။ [U] (မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါး၊ ေလာင္းကစားႏွင့္ ျပည့္တန္ဆာကိစၥ) ျပစ္မႈ။ He was arrested by the vice squad for drug-trafficking. vice 2 ( US vise ) / vaÇs / n ျပဳတ္တူ။ ( fig ) He held my arm in a vice-like (ie very firm) grip. vice- comb form ၁။ ဒုတိယ။ vice-president ❍ vice-chancellor. ၂။ ဒုတိယ။ vice admiral.

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