Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
Source: tatoeba (20061)
Vice
Synonyms for "vice" (149 found)
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Strong matches (45)
Related words (74)
Noun(4 words)
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Prefix(1 words)
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5 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesat location
1 entriesdbpedia genre
2 entriesdbpedia language
4 entriesderived
14 entriesdistinct from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesis a
5 entriesrelated to
38 entriesShowing 16 of 38 words.
used for
3 entriesTranslations
116 translations across 48 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- ves noun (bad habit)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- χαλεπότης noun (defect in the temper of a horse)
- ἐλάττωμα noun (bad habit)
Arabic
1 entries- رَذِيلَة noun (bad habit)
Belarusian
3 entries- зага́на noun (bad habit)
- няцно́та noun (bad habit)
- паро́к noun (bad habit)
Bulgarian
2 entries- поквара noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- поро́к noun (bad habit)
Catalan
1 entries- vici noun (bad habit)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 惡習 /恶习 noun (bad habit)
- 歪路 noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- 犯罪 noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- 罪惡 /罪恶 noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
Church Slavic
1 entries- порокъ noun (bad habit)
Czech
3 entries- neřest noun (bad habit)
- nešvar noun (bad habit)
- zlozvyk noun (bad habit)
Danish
3 entries- dårlig vane noun (bad habit)
- last noun (bad habit)
- uvane noun (bad habit)
Dutch
3 entries- ondeugd noun (bad habit)
- verdorvenheid noun (bad habit)
- zonde noun (bad habit)
Esperanto
1 entries- malvirto noun (bad habit)
Finnish
2 entries- pahe noun (bad habit)
- seksikauppa noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
French
2 entries- affaire de mœurs noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- vice noun (bad habit)
Galician
3 entries- obenza noun (bad habit)
- vezo noun (bad habit)
- vicio noun (bad habit)
Georgian
4 entries- ზადი noun (bad habit)
- მანკი noun (bad habit)
- მანკიერება noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- ნაკლი noun (bad habit)
German
4 entries- Laster noun (bad habit)
- Lasterhaftigkeit noun (bad habit)
- Sittenvergehen noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- Sittlichkeitsdelikt noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
Greek
1 entries- ελάττωμα noun (bad habit)
Hebrew
4 entries- השחתת מידות noun (bad habit)
- עבריינות noun (bad habit)
- עבריינות מין noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- עבריינות סמים noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
Hungarian
2 entries- gyarlóság noun (bad habit)
- gyengeség noun (bad habit)
Ido
1 entries- vicio noun (bad habit)
Indonesian
1 entries- cela noun (bad habit)
Irish
4 entries- ainbhéas noun (bad habit)
- anlocht noun (bad habit)
- drochbhéas noun (bad habit)
- drochghnáthú noun (bad habit)
Italian
4 entries- delitto a sfondo sessuale noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- difetto noun (bad habit)
- malvezzo noun (bad habit)
- pecca noun (bad habit)
Japanese
3 entries- 悪習 noun (bad habit)
- 犯罪 noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- 罪悪 noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
Kazakh
1 entries- кемістік noun (bad habit)
Korean
3 entries- 범죄 noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- 악습 noun (bad habit)
- 죄악 noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
Latin
1 entries- vitium noun (bad habit)
Macedonian
1 entries- порок noun (bad habit)
Malay
1 entries- maksiat noun (bad habit)
Māori
1 entries- kino noun (bad habit)
Old English
1 entries- unþēaw noun (bad habit)
Persian
1 entries- رذیلت noun (bad habit)
Polish
4 entries- narów noun (bad habit)
- nałóg noun (bad habit)
- przestępstwo obyczajowe noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
- wada noun (bad habit)
Portuguese
2 entries- mania noun (bad habit)
- vício noun (bad habit)
Romanian
1 entries- viciu noun (bad habit)
Russian
2 entries- поро́к noun (bad habit)
- поро́к noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
Sanskrit
1 entries- व्यसन noun (bad habit)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- mána noun (bad habit)
- pòrok noun (bad habit)
- ма́на noun (bad habit)
- по̀рок noun (bad habit)
Slovak
3 entries- neresť noun (bad habit)
- nešvár noun (bad habit)
- zlozvyk noun (bad habit)
Slovene
2 entries- pregrešnost noun (bad habit)
- razvada noun (bad habit)
Spanish
2 entries- resabio noun (bad habit)
- vicio noun (bad habit)
Swedish
3 entries- dålig vana noun (bad habit)
- last noun (bad habit)
- ovana noun (bad habit)
Tagalog
2 entries- bisyo noun (bad habit)
- bisyo noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
Thai
1 entries- อบายมุข noun (bad habit)
Turkish
3 entries- ahlaksızlık noun (bad habit)
- fuhuş noun (bad habit)
- fuhuş noun (crime related to prostitution, pornography, gambling, alcohol, or drugs)
Ukrainian
4 entries- ва́да noun (bad habit)
- нецно́та noun (bad habit)
- поро́к noun (bad habit)
- хи́ба noun (bad habit)
Volapük
1 entries- lesinod noun (bad habit)
Sample sentences
24 total sentences available.
The journalist was too upset to distinguish vice from virtue.
Source: tatoeba (20194)
Why do men behave like apes, and vice versa?
Source: tatoeba (36369)
Data can be transmitted from the main computer to yours, and vice versa.
Source: tatoeba (39650)
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