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vice

A vice is an immoral or bad habit. Smoking is a vice. A vice is an instrument that consists of two jaws and is closed by a screw or lever. It is used for holding work, such as filing.

vice

(= frailty) moral weakness a specific form of evildoing vice offends the moral standards of the community

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Simple sentences

Poverty is no vice.
Why do men behave like apes, and vice versa?
The vice-president attended the ceremony on behalf of the president.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
The vice president represented his country at the international conference.
Vice President Roosevelt hurried to Buffalo.
The man complains, because the dog is barking, or vice versa?
Let's strive after virtue and give up vice.
Einstein showed that mass can be converted into energy and vice-versa.
Joe Biden is the vice-president of the United States.
Very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.
Tom is vice-chairman of the Berlin Association of Beekeepers.
Tom is executive vice-president of the Berlin Association of Beekeepers.
Tom is vice president of the Berlin Association of Beekeepers.
Does The Earth move from East to West or vice-versa?
The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.
Everybody knows that he likes her and vice versa.
He led a life of vice.
He can't distinguish vice from virtue.
It's a vice.
In Russia women hit you, and not vice versa.
Poverty is no vice - it's twice as bad.
One person's virtue is another person's vice.
One person's vice is another person's virtue.

Movie subtitles

While we are here, call me Governor-General, Vice-Governor Euphemia.
Vice-Minister.
Vice President.45 says open the back of the truck.
Karl Victor V. Sendlingen, the highly esteemed and much belover president of his home town. returns from a prolonged absence and is welcomed at the station by Vice-president Werner. who was served as deputy in his absence.
I'd love you just as much, darling, if you were Vice President of the United States.
Thank you, Celeste, and vice versa.
How do you like being vice president?
Tell Grandpa that I love him just as much as ever but a terrible, young vice president has me in his power.
Yes, and she told me they've made him vice president.
You are awful young to be a vice president.
You know what that means, vice president.
Above the Vice- president's chair.
When the Vice-president calls you, I'll meet you in the centre aisle.
Quite vice versa.
And this fool Salvago, after he cultivated on his land blooms of vice and poisonous plants of sin. he gives up the land and himself and you?
Monsieur the Vice President wishes to speak to Monsieur the President on a very important matter.
If I succeed, there's a vice-presidency waiting for me.
Walter Raleigh, knight, vice admiral of the fleets, and warden of the stannary.
Pennsylvania Station will leave you alone and vice versa.
As your wedding present, I just suggested that the board appoint you to a vice-presidency. of the Prentiss Steel Company.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to present a serious social drama proving that vice is always punished.
Why, they'd never even let you be vice president, do you hear?
Not even vice president!
Laziness is the mother of all vice.
New York City is a hotbed of vice.
Mathilda, I shall appoint you first-crusading vice president of the Ounce Foundation.
Mr. Horace P. Hemingway, our vice president will conclude the meeting.
My savior had cured my vice by giving me his own. In one night and a few days.
Lovely party the vice president is giving.
Ah, good old vice.
Anti-Vice League?
Raising all that dough for an anti-vice fund.
They're the wrong things that seem right at the time, but even though the right things may seem wrong sometimes, sometimes the wrong things may be right at the wrong time, or vice versa.

News and current affairs

China, for example, would lose from an attack that severely damaged the American economy, and vice versa.
Consider former US Vice President Al Gore, for example, whose documentary film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, is celebrated for its unflinching look at how fossil fuel consumption is leading mankind to the brink of catastrophe.
Such language is as extreme as any we hear today - and from a man who was shortly to become Vice President (and later President, following the assassination of William McKinley).
Likewise, he has been unable to get Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan to endorse his own Medicare cost-control proposals.
Just when the world reached a consensus that Ahmadinejad was merely an instrument of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ahmadinejad appointed a Vice-President against Khamenei's wishes (though he later retracted the appointment).
After former US Vice President Al Gore lost his bid for the presidency in 2000, he became a leader of the social movement to combat global climate change, and his style changed from pragmatic to inspirational and prophetic.
The other award winner, former US Vice President Al Gore, has spent much more time telling us what to fear.
Instead, the North procrastinated, sending Vice Marshall Jo Myong-rok to the US only in October 2000, near the end of Clinton's presidency.
Political freedom is good for business, and vice versa.
Yet, just this summer, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new government sent Vice President Hamid Ansari to Beijing to participate in the treaty's 60th anniversary celebrations.
If this is so, given strong growth in America, Vice President Gore should win easily.
In sum, an incumbent vice president who loses with an economy such as exists in America today should retire to private life.
The Soviet Union imploded because the party was the state, and vice versa.
It also noted that the IMF and World Bank overlap, so that there was no real accountability for either institution. If something went wrong, the IMF could attribute responsibility to the World Bank, and vice versa.
In Uganda, Vice President Gilbert Bukenya routinely travels the country, promoting higher-value farming, such as dairy production.
BEIJING - US Vice President Joe Biden's recent four-day visit to China ended on a high note.
Vice President Richard Cheney was in effect lead conductor of the group when he served as Chairman of Halliburton, the world's largest oil services company.
With US President Barack Obama's eight years in office coming to an end, and Vice President Joe Biden unlikely to run, the race will be without an incumbent.
In February 1984, facing a quagmire, Reagan acceded to Vice President George H.W. Bush's recommendation to get out of Lebanon.
As Europe's crisis deepens, the twin channels of financial and trade linkages have placed Asia's economies in a vice.
Until that occurs, the vice now gripping Asia will only continue to tighten.
The elected president wants to act, but the assembly refuses to approve the necessary laws. Or vice versa.
Nigeria to South Africa (and vice-versa); and several countries, including China, Indonesia, and South Korea, might resist creating a permanent seat for Japan.
China's incoming president, Xi Jinping, is the son of Xi Zhongxun, a former vice premier.
Or vice versa.
And if they occur, the chances of success for a president seeking re-election - or for a vice president seeking to succeed him - are very low.
Although one would never know it from listening to the Congressional debate, the main effect of an agreement would be to lower Colombian barriers on US goods, not vice versa.

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