ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Adj. selfish; self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-centered; wrapped up in
self, wrapt up in self † , centered in self; egotistic, egotistical; egoistical † .
illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded; mercenary, venal; covetous &c 819.
unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded; mundane; worldly, worldly-minded; worldlywise;
timeserving † .
interested; alieni appetens sui profusus [Lat.].
Adv. ungenerously &c adj.; to gain some private ends, from interested motives.
Phr. apres nous le deluge [Fr.].
944. Virtue -- N. virtue; virtuousness &c adj.; morality; moral rectitude; integrity &c
(probity) 939; nobleness &c 873.
morals; ethics &c (duty) 926; cardinal virtues.
merit, worth, desert, excellence, credit; self-control &c (resolution) 604; self-denial
&c (temperance) 953.
well-doing; good actions, good behavior; discharge of duty, fulfillment of duty,
performance of duty; well-spent life; innocence &c 946.
V. be virtuous &c adj.; practice virtue &c n.; do one's duty, fulfill one's duty, perform
one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's pledge, keep one's promise &c 926; act
well, act one's part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself well; command one's passions,
master one's passions; keep in the right path.
set an example, set a good example; be on one's good behavior, be on one's best
behavior.
Adj. virtuous, good; innocent &c 946; meritorious, deserving, worthy, desertful † , correct;
dutiful, duteous; moral; right, righteous, right-minded; well-intentioned, creditable,
laudable, commendable, praiseworthy; above all praise, beyond all praise; excellent,
admirable; sterling, pure, noble; whole-souled † .
exemplary; matchless, peerless; saintly, saint-like; heaven-born, angelic, seraphic,
godlike.
Adv. virtuously &c, adj.; e merito [Lat.].
Phr. esse quam videri bonus malebat [Lat.] [Sallust]; Schonheit vergeht Tugend besteht
[G.]; virtue the greatest of all monarchies [Swift]; virtus laudatur et alget [Juvenal]; virtus
vincit invidiam [Lat.].
945. Vice -- N. vice; evil-doing, evil courses; wrongdoing; wickedness, viciousness &c
adj.; iniquity, peccability † , demerit; sin, Adam † ; old Adam † , offending Adam † .
immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy † ,
dophagy † , exophagy † ; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy,
demoralization, pravity † , depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality &c
(malevolence) 907; corruption &c (debasement) 659; knavery &c (improbity) 940 [Obs.];
profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism.
infirmity; weakness &c adj.; weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak
side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot.
lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den † ; gusto picaresco [It].
fault, crime; criminality &c (guilt) 947.
sinner &c 949.