## Meanings
1. Bad or immoral behavior, or a bad habit.
2. Criminal activities involving things such as drugs and prostitution.
3. Ranking just below another person in authority; deputy.

## Examples
- Gambling was his only real vice.
- The police set up a unit to tackle vice in the city.
- She was elected vice president of the club.

## Related Forms
- addiction
- habit
- racket
- racketeering
- vicious
- vitiate
- vitiligo
- vituperate

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: vice
- Root: vitium

## Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw.

## AI Etymology
Vice is from Middle English vice, from Old French vice, from Latin vitium (“fault or blemish”). Displaced native Old English unþēaw. Important historical forms include Middle English vice, Old French vice, and Latin vitium. In present-day use, it can mean bad or immoral behavior, or a bad habit, or criminal activities involving things such as drugs and prostitution. Related words include addiction, habit, racket, racketeering, vicious.

## Topics
- Grammar & Function Words
- Ethics & Social Judgment

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