vice

noun1 of 2

type of evildoing

• “Virtues should be sisters, the same way vices are brothers.”Tatoeba
• “The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.”Tatoeba

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adjective2 of 2

In place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank