Vice
Nouns
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vice
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evil-doing, evil courses
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wrongdoing
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wickedness, viciousness etc. adj.
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iniquity, peccability, demerit
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sin, Adam
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old Adam, offending Adam. immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals
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enphagy, dophagy, exophagy
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want of principle, want of ballast
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obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution
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hardness of heart
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brutality etc. (malevolence) Malevolence
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corruption etc. (debasement) Deterioration
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knavery etc. (improbity) Improbity
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profligacy
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flagrancy, atrocity
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cannibalism
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lesbianism, Sadism. infirmity
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weakness etc. adj.
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weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection
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error
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weak side
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foible
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failing, failure
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crying sin, besetting sin
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defect, deficiency
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cloven foot. lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den
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crime
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criminality etc. (guilt) Guilt. sinner etc. Bad Man. [Resorts] brothel etc. Impurity
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gambling house etc. [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance
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joint [Slang], opium den, shooting gallery, crack house.
Verbs
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be vicious etc. adj.
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sin, commit sin, do amiss, err, transgress
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misdemean oneself, forget oneself, misconduct oneself
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misdo, misbehave
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fall, lapse, slip, trip, offend, trespass
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deviate from the line of duty, deviate from the path of virtue etc. Virtue
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take a wrong course, go astray
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hug a sin, hug a fault
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sow one's wild oats. render vicious etc. adj.
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demoralize, brutalize
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corrupt etc. (degrade) Deterioration.
Adjectives
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vicious
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sinful
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sinning etc. v.
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wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal
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naughty, incorrect
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unduteous, undutiful. unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, indecorous, unseemly, improper
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dissolute, profligate, scampish
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unworthy
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worthless
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desertless
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disgraceful, recreant
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reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable
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discreditable, disreputable
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Sadistic. base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous
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flagrant, flagitious
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atrocious, incarnate, accursed. Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish. miscreated, misbegotten
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demoralized, corrupt, depraved. evil-minded, evil-disposed
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ill-conditioned
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malevolent etc. Malevolence
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heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless
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abandoned, lost to virtue
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unconscionable
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sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity. incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for
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culpable, reprehensible etc. (guilty) Guilt. unjustifiable
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indefensible, inexcusable
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inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible. weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect
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indiscrete
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demoralizing, degrading.
Adverbs
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wrong
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sinfully etc. adj.
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without excuse.
Phrases
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alitur vitium vivitque tegendo [Vergil]
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the trail of the serpent is over them all" [Moore]
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to sanction vice and hunt decorum down" [Bryon].