Sentence examples for it a vice from inspiring English sources

Indeed, corruption is so widespread that some commentators question whether Thais really consider it a vice.

Call it a vice or call it a virtue - they are gourmets on the go.

Nor is it a vice if top Eurocrats cannot forget their national origins: it is simply human nature.

Call it a vice (Edmund Wilson does), call it an addiction (Auden's word), a guilty pleasure in book form simply means time off from heavy lifting or heavy reading.

Milton called it "the last infirmity of noble minds", and even those who think it a vice can agree with Quintilian: "Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues".

About that time there began a gradual, albeit irregular, shift in the official attitude toward gambling, from considering it a sin to considering it a vice and a human weakness and, finally, to seeing it as a mostly harmless and even entertaining activity.

Others who are still using appear to feel guilty about it, as if it were a vice.

Whether one believes it is a vice or not, it is a very popular pastime.

The thing is, because I think of it as a vice, I compartmentalize it from the rest of my life.

The thing is, because I think of it as a vice, I compartmentalise it from the rest of my life.

You may want to put it in a vice or have someone else hold it down so that it isn't shaking back and forth.