Other forms: vices
A vice is a moral failing or a bad habit. Lying and cheating are both forms of vice.
In the United States, municipal police departments often have a bureau dedicated to vice, manned by vice cops, whose job it is to fight crime related to alcohol, drugs, and gambling. But anything can be a vice, as long as there's someone out there who views it as bad behavior or a moral weakness. You might say, casually, "Chocolate ice cream is my vice. I eat it every day."
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a specific form of evildoing“vice offends the moral standards of the community”types:gambling, gaming, playthe act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)sporting lifeactive interest in gambling on sports eventsthrowcasting an object in order to determine an outcome randomlytype of:evildoing, transgressionthe act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
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moral weakness
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Vocabulary lists containing vice
Here are links to our lists for the play: Act I, Act II, Act III, Act IV, Act V Here are links to other plays by William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Hamlet, King Lear, Julius Caesar, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream
If you ever want to dish it out like the bard, add these words to your vocabulary. Insults collected by Shakespeare-Online.