1Immoral or wicked behaviour.

1. 1.1 Criminal activities involving prostitution, pornography, or drugs.
   （卖淫、色情或毒品等）犯罪行为
   a mobile phone network is being used to peddle vice

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The sale and use of books and literature on crime, vice, pornography should be banned.
   • With this shift, connections between drug use and vice and crime had become much stronger in public discourse.
   • ‘I just wonder how many of the 63 per cent who want a brothel would like it next to them,’ said Mr McCue, who works with the police to monitor vice activity.
   • Target teams flooded the Bradford South district to focus on those involved in drugs, vice, vehicle and street crime.
   • The endless possibilities of the city could pose moral dangers of temptation and vice, of prostitution and degeneration, as well as rational recreation.
   • Quite frankly, I have no intention of travelling to a country that decides I am not responsible enough to have a beer at 3 a.m. because they have a domestic problem with drugs and vice.
   • In her films, Wishman employs standard melodramatic plot lines and then inverts the parameters to impose illicit acts and criminal vice into the fray.
   • In all, 78 cases had been resolved with the majority involving vice, child prostitution, theft and public disturbance.
   • I have long been puzzled by the supposed crackdown on drugs and vice that steadfastly ignored the home grown Thai problem of all pervasive corruption.
   • But my friend Dave, who used to operate the Kings Cross CCTV cameras, can vouch that there is still enough drugs and vice going on in the area for the Met to shake a very big truncheon-like stick at.
   • In his 30 years as a police officer, Charlie Jones worked patrol, vice, narcotics, robbery, auto theft and homicide.
   • And vice associated with prostitution - pimping, extortion and drug abuse - simultaneously diminished.
   • Before these secondments, he spent four years as a detective at Sydney's Waverley station, working drugs and vice.
   • The former leader of York Council, who faces vice and blackmail charges, was yesterday given bail by a judge.
   • Her family were heartbroken as they watched helplessly as she slipped further into the seedy world of drugs and vice.
   • Detectives investigated the murky world of vice and drugs to track down the murderer.
   • Mostly they work at low paid jobs, some are starving and cold, others turn to prostitution and vice to make ends meet until their big break comes.
   • Asylum seekers are being praised for helping to breathe new life into a rundown part of a South Yorkshire town that was once blighted by drugs and vice.
   • The exceptions, he wrote, are those who come as warriors or spies or to spread corruption, vice and drugs.
   • Closing bars and nightclubs will not rid the place of drugs and vice.

   Synonyms

   immorality, wrongdoing, wrong, wickedness, badness, evil-doing, evil, iniquity, villainy, venality, impurity, corruption, corruptness, misconduct
2. 1.2count noun An immoral or wicked personal characteristic.
   （人品）缺德；邪恶
   hypocrisy is a particularly sinister vice

   Example sentencesExamples

   • As you may already know, I work on my Heart Smarts goodwill program full time, helping people fight off vices that plague their lives, like gambling and genocide.
   • Once upon a time, in a very different world, it was not known that the children of George V shared some of the worst characteristics and vices of their generation, as well as some of the best and most heroic virtues.
   • Taylor's picture provides a credible analysis of the vices and virtues of the modern naturalization of the cosmos and of our tendency to think that values are subjective.
   • In the Muslim world materialism is rampant but is considered a vice; people are not presented as role models simply because of their wealth.
   • But now that porn has become ubiquitous, people have forgotten that it is a vice.
   • We can add to the argument of that illustrious author by observing that slavery is not useful to the master because the latter contracts all kinds of vices and habits contrary to the laws of society.
   • I didn't really get involved in any of the hedonistic vices that most people got involved in.
   • For me, this turns on whether Bennett has engaged in a vice or has refused to accept personal responsibility.
   • In fact, being part of the Greek community lessens the influence of such vices on impressionable young people.
   • Corruption as a vice affects people from all walks of life and it is important that everybody and anybody, who is willing and able, should be involved to fight the scourge that is eating at the heart of our society today.
   • And for a man who confesses to having an addictive personality, his main vice is now mostly confined to words.
   • It is true that any kind of involvement in vices is basically a moral issue and people do not have to be poor or rich to indulge in crime.
   • Extracting money out of innocent, trusting people for these two vices was easy for him.
   • The subtext is that this is a story of a personal vice, usually greed, on the part of the trader or his managers or both.
   • Criminalizing non-violent persons for their vices is immoral.
   • When one departs from the deeds of a specific group into speaking of the vices of a whole race or a people, one is descending to demonization and engaging in pure propaganda.
   • The choir likewise represent not only the blessed and angels, but vices personified; they are also used as a chorus - in the sense of Greek tragedy - to comment on the action.
   • ‘Our aim is to introduce the sport in schools so that we bring the young out of bad vices, especially sexual immorality,’ Munkonge said.
   • When the worse gets to the worst, a number of people end up indulging in various societal vices to earn a living.
3. 1.3count noun A weakness of character or behaviour; a bad habit.
   （性格或行为的）弱点；坏习惯
   cigars happen to be my father's vice

   抽雪茄恰好是我父亲的坏习惯。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The line of thinking advocated by Sister Uma is that the world can be transformed if only each individual shed his/her vices and acquired spiritual traits.
   • In their movies, the Coens have always given dumb people over to their vices and let them dangle.
   • He called on his team to display that old fashioned Scottish characteristic of aggression, which can be as much a virtue as a vice unlike other traits some would foist upon teams.
   • Personal vices may arise, and conflicting viewpoints may emerge, but they'll only affect a small number of voters this time.
   • The problem might well be that our political class is not particularly patriotic - in fact, sees patriotism as a vice.
   • Given these attitudes, they are prone to a number of vices, including lack of generosity, cowardice, and intemperance.
   • In the revolutionaries' eyes, anything that made a woman look attractive was considered a vice because it distracted people from piousness and spirituality.
   • Most of the natural vices which prevent a person from being ‘good,’ in Hume's sense, are ones that may well ‘go to posterity,’ and so do have weight and moment.
   • Of course it also has Lumet's characteristic vices - he has never been exactly subtle.
   • For instance, while more people invoke God in terms of politics and policy, you see evangelicals and conservative Protestants spending less time focused on personal vices.
   • It finds expression in acts of particular virtues or vices like honesty, generosity, cheerfulness, jealousy or cruelty.
   • But on the other hand, the liberal in me is a little uneasy about regulating people's vices in this way.
   • We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions.
   • Tabloid journalism used to be a guilty vice enjoyed by people waiting in supermarket lines.
   • They were basically good people with problems and vices.
   • Cursing is another vice that some people decide to give up on.
   • Maybe the political indifference or ignorance of the average American is not at root a vice in our national life but a virtue, a product of a mild politics.
   • Sikhs try to avoid the five vices that make people self-centred, and build barriers against God in their lives.
   • There are no caricatures; each character has his own unique blend of characteristics, strength and weaknesses, virtue and vices.
   • War, according to the theologian, meant a battle against vices, personal and spiritual.

   Synonyms

   shortcoming, failing, flaw, fault, defect, weakness, weak point, deficiency, limitation, imperfection, blemish, foible, fallibility, frailty, infirmity
4. 1.4count noun A bad or neurotic habit of stabled horses, typically arising as a result of boredom.
   （尤指马厩里马因厌倦而出现的）劣性，恶癖
   Example sentencesExamples

   • This type of diet can lead to stable vices such as cribbing or chewing to more serious problems such as ulcers, colic and acidosis.
   • Some stabled horses develop abnormal behaviors called stable vices from the stress of confinement.
   • The gelding I had never saw his sire, grew up entirely different from his sire and still would occasionally exhibit his stable vice for several minutes if a stable mate was taken out and he wasn't.
   • Here is a list of some of the more common stable vices, their causes, and some tips on how to curb them.
   • These stable vices generally result in a damaged barn, but they have the potential to cause serious health conditions.
   • Heredity may also predispose a horse to certain vices.
   • Overexcited nervous horses are more prone to health problems and bad habits or stable vices and can be dangerous for riders and owners.
   • All of the common stable vices stem from poor adaption to captive management.
   • Many livery yard owners will not tolerate a horse with a stable vice in their yard but on the other hand a horse with proven form might be forgiven a vice if it was reflected in the purchase price.
   • Any stable vice, such as weaving or cribbing, results in that stallion not receiving his breeding license.
   • The most common stable vice is probably ‘wind sucking,’ commonly known as ‘cribbing,’ followed by wood chewing, stall weaving or walking, and fence line pacing.
   • Therefore so-called stable vices are more properly being referred to as ‘stereotypic behaviour’.
   • An overfed, underexercised horse is a prime candidate for developing any of a number of stable vices.
   • Somebody turn this horse out or he'll develop stable vices!
   • He has no stable vices and is excellent to shoe, box, clip, catch and to handle in all ways.
   • Weaving, crib biting and windsucking are all stable vices and should be declared at the time of sale and will be noted on the veterinary certificate.
   • The incidence of many of the so-called stable vices of horses can be increased by stable design.
   • Learn about the characteristics, causes and cures of weaving a common stable vice in horses and ponies.
   • Cribbiting is a stable vice that can lead on to the more serious condition of windsucking.
   • One common stable vice is cribbing, and it may be more of a danger than once thought.

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