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vice-riddenadjective1(Of a place) having a high incidence of activity involving prostitution, pornography, or drugs: a vice-ridden hub for violent suburban youths...- The need to escape the overcrowded and vice-ridden "Tenderloin" district prompted many ambitious black families to seek accommodations in Harlem.
- This new movie lifts the lid on the murky, back-stabbing, vice-ridden world of the movie agent.
- During her time in the vice-ridden West End and Soho of the 1950s, she weathered her fair share of violent confrontations.
1.1(Of a person) engaging in immoral or dissolute behaviour: the present generation of college students is more studious and less vice-ridden...- Like other vice-ridden players of his time, he was also very good at snooker.
- The Catholics who settled later were held to be poor, illiterate, vice-ridden, and in thrall to their priests.
- Late-night casinos are still considered by many as a hang-out for vice-ridden ne'er-do-wells.
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