VICE
WordNet
noun
(1) A specific form of evildoing
"Vice offends the moral standards of the community"
(2) Moral weakness
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A bad habit.
- Smoking is a vice, not a virtue.
- prostitution
Etymology 2
From , from , , from ; probably akin to English .
Noun
Adjective
vice (no comparative or superlative)
- in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank