What's the difference between misdeed and vice?

Misdeed


Definition:

  • (n.) An evil deed; a wicked action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Only specific areas of psychiatry may be found guilty of misdeeds, but psychiatry as a whole bears an historical responsibility for the terrible events in Nazi Germany.
  • (2) If that attitude could sometimes frustrate senior editors’ desire to raise standards – if it could, in the end, be blamed for the calamitous failure to spot the misdeeds of Johann Hari – it was also the only thing that kept the paper from falling apart completely: an irresistibly romantic underdog spirit, a sense that since this plainly wasn’t a viable business, it had to be a cause.
  • (3) Halting print runs, closing down websites, silencing radio stations and blacking out TV screens are all ways of concealing misdeeds, preventing scrutiny or simply blocking alternative viewpoints.
  • (4) This may well be true, but his patrons seem more interested in songs about the very misdeeds which landed them in jail.
  • (5) There is a recommendation for a duty of candour to be placed in the NHS constitution, obliging hospitals to be "honest, open and truthful", in effect an admonishment for past misdeeds.
  • (6) Dalli, in a videoed interview with a Brussels political paper, said the investigators' report "stated there was no proof at all that I was involved in any misdeed" and that no decision of the commission had been jeopardised.
  • (7) RBS has so far set aside £5.4bn to cover the cost of past errors and misdeeds, according to its results of the first three months of 2015 .
  • (8) Again, it wasn’t an army unit that was tasked to do the misdeed; rather it was a sort of patchwork, a random collection of guys summoned to do the killings, to their surprise, against their own will and interest, and it was so clandestine that the perpetrators hid it from their most immediate commander.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Karadžić with Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladić in 1995.
  • (9) Liu was singled out as one of the disaster's primary culprits , and state media began to highlight his misdeeds and gloss over his decades of achievement.
  • (10) J'accuse, the track in question, borrows its title from Emile Zola's famous denunciation of the French government in 1898 over the infamous Dreyfus affair and places Awadi as an uncompromisingly political animal, castigating France, America, Belgium and Africa for their role in colonial and post-colonial misdeeds.
  • (11) HSBC, in comparison, has ten times the revenue and 10 times as many seven-figure earners: Watch it below, or on her site here (scroll to 2.00m in) Louise has also helped cover Justin Bieber's misdeeds for the Guardian today - Justin Bieber's late O2 appearance – he's lost at least one (adult) Belieber .
  • (12) There were two earlier inquiries into their misdeeds.
  • (13) If one demands a far-left political agenda, a public embrace of socialism and is unwilling to forgive past misdeeds like that Iraq war vote, Sanders is your guy.
  • (14) Lindqvist suggests that the British should learn from Germans in reflecting on their misdeeds.
  • (15) But it happened.” Interviewed as part of a BBC documentary to be shown later this week, Armstrong did, however, offer something that began to resemble an apology for his misdeeds, although it came with the same defence that he has offered since the end of 2012 – that his doping was a generational phenomenon.
  • (16) I think taxpayers will be horrified … I don’t know if corruption is a strong enough word for it.” The fines from the FCA go to Treasury coffers as a result of rule changes imposed by Osborne in the wake of the Libor rigging crisis two years ago to prevent the proceeds of misdeeds going to the City regulator as they had done in the past.
  • (17) Michelle's misdeed was shacking up with Steve, who weathered the worst of the ensuing shitstorm by buggering off to visit mum Liz in the Costa del Convenient.
  • (18) It has detracted from the great work which you do for our customers on a daily basis and from the major accomplishments of the past five years.” Horta-Osório has stressed the importance of maintaining high standards of behaviour to Lloyds staff, which has paid multiple fines and billions of pounds in customer compensation for past misdeeds.
  • (19) The past has begun to follow us, and all of our misdeeds remain remembered.
  • (20) Berezovsky decamped to Britain where he led a noisy campaign against Putin, accusing him of numerous misdeeds.

Vice


Definition:

  • (n.) A defect; a fault; an error; a blemish; an imperfection; as, the vices of a political constitution; the vices of a horse.
  • (n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance.
  • (n.) The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; -- called also Iniquity.
  • (n.) A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same as Vise.
  • (n.) A tool for drawing lead into cames, or flat grooved rods, for casements.
  • (n.) A gripe or grasp.
  • (v. t.) To hold or squeeze with a vice, or as if with a vice.
  • (prep.) In the place of; in the stead; as, A. B. was appointed postmaster vice C. D. resigned.
  • (prep.) Denoting one who in certain cases may assume the office or duties of a superior; designating an officer or an office that is second in rank or authority; as, vice president; vice agent; vice consul, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I am rooting hard for you.” Ronald Reagan simply told his former vice-president Bush: “Don’t let the turkeys get you down.” By 10.30am Michelle Obama and Melania Trump will join the outgoing and incoming presidents in a presidential limousine to drive to the Capitol.
  • (2) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
  • (3) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (4) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
  • (5) La3+ binding was partially inhibited by RuR and vice versa, and La3+ was also capable of partially displacing RuR previously bound to the synaptosomes, particularly in the sucrose medium.
  • (6) It is not known whether the conversion of DHEAS into E1 and E2 influence the conversion of 16OH-DHEAS into E3 and vice versa.
  • (7) Behavioral interventions developed for alcohol abuse are now being tested with drug abusers, and vice versa.
  • (8) George Bush, who won Ohio narrowly last time, has been there almost 20 times in the past four years and Vice-President Cheney is on his way this week.
  • (9) And I was a little surprised because I said: ‘Doesn’t sound like he did anything wrong there.’ But he did something wrong with respect to the vice-president and I thought that was not acceptable.” So that’s clear.
  • (10) The vice chancellor of the Catholic University, Greg Craven, wrote in the Australian that stripping either dual or sole nationals of citizenship via a ministerial decision “would be irredeemably unconstitutional.
  • (11) The only thing Michael Fabricant could reasonably be vice-chairman of is the steering committee of Nurse Ratched 's ward fete.
  • (12) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.
  • (13) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
  • (14) Norepinephrine (10(-5) to 10(-6) M) increased contractile force and decreased alpha iNa, but in its presence ACh still increased force and alpha iNa and vice versa.
  • (15) Microbial antigen-specific LTT responses fluctuated considerably in time from strongly positive to negative and vice versa in healthy individuals as well as in patients.
  • (16) Lynn Kramer, the zoo's vice-president of animal operations and welfare, said five lions were typically in the exhibit and have never appeared to endanger each other before.
  • (17) Retrieval was manipulated by representing a proportion of the old picture and word items in their opposite form during the recognition test (i.e., some old pictures were tested with their corresponding words and vice versa).
  • (18) Any family seen to be "enmeshed" is also seen as "fused," and vice versa.
  • (19) During flexion the lateral femoral condyle displays near extension pure rolling, near flexion pure gliding, on the medial side this ratio is vice versa.
  • (20) Vice versa, when the glpF and glpK(+) alleles of S. flexneri are incorporated into E. coli, the hybrid strain grows slowly in low glycerol medium.

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