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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a vice of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a moral failing or a negative characteristic associated with a person or thing.
Example: "Greed is often considered a vice of many powerful individuals in society."
Alternatives: "a flaw of" or "a shortcoming of".
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There is something repellently absurd in the notion that war is a vice of "backward" peoples.
Yet workers are gripped in a vice of state control through the kafala system.
But it turned out that overleveraging wasn't just a vice of subprime borrowers.
His pattern of predation and violence, though, is a vice of a different order.
Luce's book is a call to thinking, but US thinking is stuck in a vice of myth and denial.
Photograph: Reuters It is a vice of second-rate art to come with its own eloquent explanation attached.
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He is a vice president of Complete Medical Services of New York.
"It would not be good," said Representative Deborah Wasserman Schultz of Florida, a vice chairwoman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Consider the story of Karl Knock, a vice president of a Creston bank.
Ninnis was a Life Governor of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution, a Vice President of the Royal Masonic School for Boys, and a Vice Patron of the Royal Masonic School for Girls.
He is a Vice President of NAIST and Dean of the Graduate School of Information Science.
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