Vices in example sentence

Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.

More example sentences with word vices

And to fill the void on the inside, I began to cave to all the vices being thrown my way.

But sadly, the vision of a great future, or the dream of a great future, is just a dream, because you have all of these vices.

We can see trees being used to map morality, with the popular tree of virtues and tree of vices, as you can see here, with these beautiful illustrations from medieval Europe.

Now, surrounding the Tyrant, Lorenzetti illustrates the vices that animate bad government.

All example sentences