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What is the adjective for vice?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb vice which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

vicious
  1. Violent, destructive and cruel.
  2. Savage and aggressive.
  3. (archaic) Pertaining to vice; characterised by immorality or depravity.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “The wretched inhabitants suffered all the horrors of war and famine from the vicious tyrant.”
      “The editor's footnote had further portrayed him as a vicious and immoral man who pursued his selfish gains by poisoning his countrymen.”
      “He wrote, under the pen name of Coriolanus, a vicious rebuke to the emancipationists.”
vice
  1. in place of; subordinate to; designating a person below another in rank
viced
  1. (obsolete) vicious; corrupt
  2. Examples:
    1. “But, from the way in which the coachman's hand was viced between his upper and lower thigh, this was impossible.”
      “Mark Twain once went on a 70-city tour, a feat that even the greediest modern author, ser viced by aeroplanes and limousines, would hesitate to imitate.”
      “And, in some ways, the visual had become redundant: since we'd become so acquainted with the physical, animal power of Freddie, we could imagine his gaunt and sinewy body viced upon his next victim.”
vitious
  1. Obsolete form of vicious.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Yet as they led a wicked and vitious life so to appearance they died very obdurately and impenitently hardened in their sin.”
      “Every plaudit which a vitious play, or a bad actor receives is a blow to the public morals, and the public taste.”
viceless
  1. Without vice.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Its main advantages were strength, ease of maintenance, and viceless flying qualities.”
      “The automatic gearbox takes the edge off some already blunt performance, but is otherwise pretty viceless.”
      “A glance at the specifications shows that the performance was not spectacular, but the aircraft was completely viceless with respect to its flying and handling qualities.”
viciouser
viciousest
vicing
  1. present participle of vice
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