viceless

[ vahys-lis ]

adjective

1. free from vices. vice.

Word History and Origins

Origin of viceless¹

First recorded in 1550–60; vice ¹ + -less

Example Sentences

"Gorton is virtually viceless, except for his impatience, which can morph into arrogance if things get tedious."

From Seattle Times

He is an automaton of political finesse, a tireless, viceless performer of the right word & deed at the right time for political effect.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then an ingenious American had taken B. I. 5 in hand and had done certain things to her wings, her tail, her fuselage and her engine and from the chaos of her remains was born B. I. 6, not unlike her erratic mother in appearance, but viceless.

From Project Gutenberg

The sensational fiction of the day has laboured hard in the production of great criminals; but it has produced no human being so vitally debased, no nature so utterly loathsome, no soul so hopelessly lost, as the handsome, smiling, accomplished, popular, viceless Greek, Tito Melema. 

From Project Gutenberg

He gasps; he wonders whether the English mees is as innocent as she looks—or used to look—and does not know the perfide tongue of the perfide Albion well enough to be aware that nothing shocking is said, and that it is pretended that the cocotte is a mere kindly friend, the collage a trifling flirtation, the debauche a viceless lark, and that the foulest conduct of husband or wife does not reach a real breach of the commandment more often broken in England than the rest of the sacred ten.

From Project Gutenberg