vices
Example Sentences
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After all, what part of my body went into those mechanical vices during my mammogram?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026
Perhaps the book’s greatest feat is its depiction of the historical moment when the modern overpowered the ancient—a world, now lost, of floridly costumed courtiers, fabled princes, exotic vices and perfumed palaces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
The web of their lives “is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together,” to filch from Shakespeare, and Venable combines virtues and vices in unexpected patterns.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
This is a show for people who think they’re too good for reality TV but aren’t above enjoying the moral vices and virtues of its players.
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
