Crime
Crime noun - A breaking of a moral or legal code.
Usage example: anyone who commits a crime should expect to be punished for it
Vice is a synonym for crime in property topic. In some cases you can use "Vice" instead a noun "Crime", when it comes to topics like evil, depravity, offense against the law, lawbreaking.
Nearby Words: criminal, criminally
Vice
Vice noun - Immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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His lair, a den of crime and vice, is in a dingy nightclub playing classic jazz straight out of a 1940's Film Noir.
Source: Film / Star Wars: The Clone Wars - An honest man living in a city overrun by crime and vice is sick of living in fear and wants to fight back, Batman-style.
Source: Not What I Signed On For -
Izzy once even helped the two cops out while Izzy was in the middle of committing another crime (the crime was straight burglary... they're Vice cops... they cut him a break).
Source: Series / Miami Vice
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Vice and Crime. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crime/vice
Crime & Vice. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/crime/vice>.
Vice or Crime. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crime/vice.
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