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Example sentences for: vices

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The spins, in order of ascending cynicism: 1) This teaches us that the current vices exemplified by the main characters (selfishness, narcissism, and greed) will be punished.
He did everything by the book: highlighted favorable issues, exploited his personal history, and portrayed his opponents' advantages as vices.
It's close to pure farce, yet its laughs are grounded in loneliness, impotence, self-loathing, and that most discomfiting of vices to dramatize: envy.
The nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncarousing, and mostly monolingual CIA officials of today do not have the vices of either their more adventurous contemporaries or their flamboyant Ivy League predecessors, but it is really unfair to expect them to cope with all those foreigners out there.
It's an old argument, but Fish makes it new by going back to the source--John Locke--and showing that in order to arrive at the principle of separation of church and state (the bedrock of liberal polity ), Locke had to define religion as an internal process, each man's war "upon his own lusts and vices."