<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>an immoral or evil habit or practice: These biblical verses cover the vices of boastfulness and pride, miserliness, and hypocrisy.</li><li>immoral conduct; depraved or degrading behavior: In the Christian religion, there are numerous instances of sudden conversions from a life of vice to one of virtue.</li><li>sexual immorality, especially prostitution.</li><li>a particular form of depravity.</li><li>a fault, defect, or shortcoming: a minor vice in his literary style.</li><li>a bad habit: Allowing your horse turnout in a paddock may prevent vices such as weaving or wood chewing normally observed in a stall.</li><li>vice squad: Detective Crockett was reassigned from the Robbery Division to Vice last year.</li><li>vice, a character in the English morality plays, a personification of general vice or of a particular vice, serving as the buffoon.</li><li>a physical defect, flaw, or infirmity: In most cases, attempts to relieve the symptoms will be of little avail without at the same time relieving or removing the constitutional vice which has induced this condition.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>of or relating to the vice squad, or to the threats to public order it is tasked to police, such as gambling, pornography, prostitution, and narcotics: the vice division of the police department.</li></ul>