The word 'vices' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a habit or behavior that someone finds hard to give up or control, such as drinking or smoking. For example, "John had a hard time giving up his vices after he quit his job."
The doctor asks the man to list his vices and then he says: "Right, I want you to give up smoking, I want you to give up drinking, I want you to give up rich food, I want you to give up sex".
We soon forget their vices because essentially they are ordinary folks trying to survive in a harsh, foreign society that is intent on suppressing them.
It draws upon ideas of virtue and vocation in the economy that are out of fashion, but necessary for our country as we defend ourselves from a repetition of the vices that led to the financial crash and its subsequent debt and deficit.
After a life dedicated to emphasising virtues and hiding vices, it is not easy to become honest to a fault and objective beyond doubt.
As one of seven emirates which not only welcome the outside world but are more tolerant of their vices than many Arab countries, Dubai aggravates certain anti-Western groupings.
First Hitchens, who succumbed to oesophageal cancer on December 15th, aged 62, a victim of his vices and DNA (his father died of the same disease).
The Clinton administration should try harder to convince Congress of the virtues of international collaboration and the vices of protectionism.
Notes in Scotland are issued by Scottish banks and do not feature Elgar.Lorraine Galloway et alQueen Margaret Union ShopUniversity of GlasgowGlasgowSIR – Cash will never disappear as long as people have vices.
The vices of mankind are active and able ministers of depopulation...but should they fail in this war of extermination, sickly seasons, epidemic, pestilence and plague advance in terrific array, and sweep off their thousands and ten thousands.
LIKE disgraced politicians, emerging markets are doomed to be known for their vices rather than their virtues.
This has also made him one of the most hated men in the land, even among people who have only the haziest idea what he does.Nearly all New Labour's vices, in particular its control-freakery, its obsession with spin and its pandering to tabloid prejudices, are laid at Mr Campbell's door.
