What's the difference between vice and wallow?

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.

Wallow


Definition:

  • (n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
  • (n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  • (n.) To wither; to fade.
  • (v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
  • (n.) A kind of rolling walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) University websites wallowed in self-congratulation in the wake of the REF, where experts assessed research in 36 subject areas, looking at quality, the infrastructure that supported it, and its impact on the outside world.
  • (2) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
  • (3) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
  • (4) Her parents divorced when she was young, money was tight and there was no cable TV to wallow in.
  • (5) Unashamedly wallowing in pop Celebrating its 18th birthday, this year's V line-up reads like a typical, if solidly suburban, teenage house party playlist.
  • (6) The outrage is thumped home by this coincidence of timing: that the Premier League has reached its quarter century, now wallowing in £2.8bn annual television deals, with clubs spending £50m on right-backs , in the same year that the authorities have finally brought criminal charges for those deaths 28 years ago.
  • (7) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
  • (8) The message is loud and clear to all dictators: you can arrest the opposition every other day, pass draconian laws and let your country wallow in poverty, as long as your troops are available for us when we need to go on a peace keeping mission in, say, Somalia.
  • (9) It was 12.24am, local time, when Alessandro Diamanti walked forward for the final, decisive kick and, when it was all done, Italy had booked a semi-final against Germany while England were wallowing in the familiar sense of deja vu that comes with another harrowing disappointment in a penalty shoot-out.
  • (10) When inspiration strikes, you have to hope that the other 10 people on stage will give you space to wallow in your "moment".
  • (11) Other newspapers, too, wallowed in the rumours of orgiastic high court judges, sado-masochistic cabinet ministers and aristocratic sex slaves wearing cards that read 'If my services don't please you, whip me'.
  • (12) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
  • (13) There, you wallow in yesteryear’s fabulosity, cast off by someone whose spending habits you’re morally outraged by but whose taste you can’t fault.
  • (14) He says his research allowed him to wallow in 70s conspiracy films such as The Conversation, The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, "though reading Pynchon and the Illuminatus!
  • (15) To wallow in it would be fun but sullying, and also obscures the fact that Simmonds has done us a favour.
  • (16) "The pursuit of judicial refuge may produce a paradoxical effect: in the short term a rich infusion of talent for the benches; but beyond that, critics argue, the future looks bleak.Sympathy for barristers – popularly perceived as wallowing in claret, six-figure salaries and refresher fees – is limited.
  • (17) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.
  • (18) It’s so routine.” Media coverage of climate change in Fiji doesn’t have the luxury of wallowing in the sort of cosseted denialism seen in the US, Britain or Australia.
  • (19) It would be amazing to be able to relish the moment and wallow in some exciting new technology and upcoming entertainment, but unfortunately it's all coming loaded with all this woolly, drab bullshit around it.
  • (20) A sly kick at the rear of Winston Reid’s legs prompted the winger’s second yellow card – and an early wallow in the Radox.

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