From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Crimevicevice /vaɪs/ noun1[uncountable]SCCcriminal activities that involve sex or drugsthe fight against vice on the streetsThe police have smashed a vice ring (=a group of criminals involved in vice) in Chicago.2[countable]HABIT a bad habitSmoking is my only vice.3[countable, uncountable]BAD BEHAVIOUR OR ACTIONS a bad or immoralquality in a person, or bad or immoral behaviourOPP virtueJealousy is a vice.to reward virtue and punish vice4 →vise →vice-likeExamples from the Corpusvice• However, drug-taking is a vice, not a crime.• The question remains in both legends equally, nevertheless, as to where virtue ends and vice begins in such piousadventures.• Smoking is one of his few vices.• In spite of his variety of vices, he refuses to let anything age him.• Clive thought she might be a rare type of pervert who gets off on vociferously condemning all the vices she actually practises.vice-vice- /vaɪs/ prefix →vice-president/chairman etcOriginvice(1200-1300)Old FrenchLatinvitium"fault, vice"