vice – English noun declension

English noun forms of vice

Noun: vice
Singularvice
Pluralvices

Sample Sentences

  • Pride is a vice, not a virtue.
  • Smoking was a vice Sally picked up in high school.
  • Shepard: I wear a lot of hats, Mr. Vargas. Some days I shut down criminals. Some days I defuse nukes. Some days I like to enjoy private vices. You understand me? [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:]
  • It's a rush you can't deny / A little violence is the ultimate drug / Let's get high / You've been powerless to your vices / Self-control defies you [2015, “Vices” (01:22-02:33 from the start), in Repentless (Thrash Metal), performed by Slayer:]
  • I should not be left to my own devices / they come with prices and vices / I end up in crisis / Tale as old as time [2022 October 21, Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff, “Anti-Hero”, in Midnights (Pop Rock, Synth-Pop, Electropop), performed by Taylor Swift:]
  • So a horse with say, navicular disease, making him suitable only for light hacking, would probably be unsound, whereas rearing would be a vice, being a "defect in the temper... making it dangerous". A vice can however render a horse unsound - possibly a crib biter will damage its wind. [1839, Scholefield v. Robb; cited in Gilligan, Brenda, Practical Horse Law, 2002, →ISBN:]

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *dwóh₁
3. From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw. See: Middle English Nouns 'vice', Latin Nouns 'vitium'.