Sentence examples for vices from high-quality English sources.

• I believe in the many virtues of vices.

• Strikingly absent are the vices (Kristjánsson 2013: 7, 153).

• It would be no surprise if others had chosen to emulate its virtues—and adopted its vices, too.

• A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety-nine.

• Another “growth area” for VE is profiles of individual virtues and vices.

• It is the keystone passion in that when one has it, one does not have vices.

• In “Circles” the vices are “forms of old age,” and the hero the “receptive, aspiring” youth (CW2:189).

• In their sophistication, the vices of the courtier are frequently hidden beneath the appearance of virtue.

Use vices in a sentence.

• Instead, the rest of Europe now worries, the eastern members have simply smuggled these vices into the EU.

• Wisdom literature tended to stress the same virtues and to condemn the same vices, regardless of the region and cult.

• It should play up splits and divisions and any personal foibles (your own vices, meanwhile, must remain state secrets).

• That is to say, are virtues and vices to be assessed entirely on the basis of an agent’s deliberate choices and intentional actions?

• Both these dogs seemed to me like outcasts, kooks, pains in the ass who the adults secretly wished would just succumb to their own vices already.

• For example, malice, lust, gluttony, greed, laziness, vengefulness, envy, servility, contempt and arrogance are all vices in Kant’s normative ethical theory.

• If someone lacks virtue, she may have any of several moral vices, or she may be characterized by a condition somewhere in between virtue and vice, such as continence or incontinence.

• Taking the Aristotelian view that virtues are a mean between opposite kinds of vices, fallacious arguments can be seen as resulting from arguers moving in one or another direction away from a mean of good argumentation.

vices sentence examples

• …related genre was the “character,” a brief, witty description of a social or moral type, imitated from Theophrastus and practiced first by Joseph Hall (Characters of Virtues and Vices, 1608) and later by Sir Thomas Overbury, John Webster, and Thomas Dekker.

• Satire, artistic form, chiefly literary and dramatic, in which human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, parody, caricature, or other methods, sometimes with an intent to inspire social reform.

• Although virtues and vices are dispositions of arguers and fallacies are arguments, it is claimed that good argumentation generally results from the influence of argumentation virtues and bad argumentation (including the fallacies) arise because of the vices of arguers.

• They focus on topics other than knowledge and justification, such as deliberation, inquiry, understanding, wisdom, profiles of individual virtues and vices, examinations of the relations among distinct virtues and vices, and the social, ethical, and political dimensions of cognition.