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PERVERSIONS |
Vices |
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EVILS |
Vices |
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WEAKNESSES |
Achilles’ heels put in vices? |
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CLAMPS |
Applauds admission of a thousand vices |
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FLAGITIOUS |
Characterized by scandalous crimes or vices; as,
flagitious times. |
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REPTILE |
Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew;
reptile vices. |
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DETESTABLE |
Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely
hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. |
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SATURNALIA |
Hence: A period or occasion of general license, in
which the passions or vices have riotous indulgence. |
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RAKE |
A loose, disorderly, vicious man; a person addicted to
lewdness and other scandalous vices; a debauchee; a roue. |
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SPEND |
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to
spend an estate in gaming or other vices. |
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PALLIATION |
The act of palliating, or state of being palliated;
extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices. |
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TORRENT |
Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood;
as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence. |
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AMENDMENT |
An alteration or change for the better; correction of a
fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. |
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INFAMOUS |
Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation;
scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices;
infamous corruption. |
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VICE |
A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as,
the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse. |
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INFECTIOUS |
Having qualities that may infect; communicable or
caused by infection; pestilential; epidemic; as, an infectious fever;
infectious clothing; infectious air; infectious vices. |
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LEAD |
To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain
place; as, the path leads to the mill; gambling leads to other vices. |
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OWING |
Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue,
etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices;
his failure was owing to speculations. |
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SYMBOLISM |
The act of symbolizing, or the state of being
symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of
truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. |
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INVERSION |
A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, "of
all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable," instead of,
"impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices." |
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UNDO |
...n
reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by
unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation,
or by... |
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HOUYHNHNM |
...ce of
brutes having the form and all the worst vices of men. ... |