vice1

noun

• immoral or wicked behaviour: an open sewer of vice and crime
• criminal activities involving prostitution, pornography, or drugs: a mobile phone network is being used to peddle vice
• [count noun] an immoral or wicked personal characteristic: hypocrisy is a particularly sinister vice
• [count noun] a weakness of character or behaviour; a bad habit:cigars happen to be my father’s vice
• (also stable vice) [count noun] a bad or neurotic habit of stabled horses, typically arising as a result of boredom.