VICE

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Traducere în limba română

vice¹ substantiv

1. viciu.

2. defect, imperfecţiune, cusur, lipsă; corupţie, depravare; perversitate.

3. nărav.

4. (fig.) viciu (de construcţie).

vice² I. substantiv

(tehn.) menghină, urs.

vice² II. verb tranzitiv

1. a prinde în menghină.

2. (rar) a înşuruba,

3. (rar) a forţa, a sili, a constrânge.

vice³ prepoziție

în locul (cu gen.), în loc de.

vice⁴ substantiv (fam.) presc. de la vice-chancellor; vice-president etc.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Your threats cannot move me to do an act of wickedness; but they confirm me in a determination of not creating you a companion in vice.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly or their vice.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

It is a mixed quality to my mind, half a virtue and half a vice: a virtue in holding a man out of the dirt; a vice in making it hard for him to rise when once he has fallen.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had no great talents, no marked traits of character, no peculiar development of feeling or taste which raised her one inch above the ordinary level of childhood; but neither had she any deficiency or vice which sunk her below it.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

My dear Strong, said Mr. Wickfield in a tremulous voice, my good friend, I needn't tell you that it has been my vice to look for some one master motive in everybody, and to try all actions by one narrow test.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And it must be owned, that seven months were a sufficient time to correct every vice and folly to which Yahoos are subject, if their natures had been capable of the least disposition to virtue or wisdom.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of whose existence everyone will be ignorant.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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