Vile
[vaɪl]
Definition
(superl.) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
(superl.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.
Editor: Nettie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Base, mean, low, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, grovelling, pitiful, ignoble, abject, scurvy, shabby, base-minded, foul.[2]. Sinful, wicked, knavish.[3]. Worthless, of poor quality, linsey-woolsey.
Editor: Upton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cheap, worthier, valueless, low, base, mean, despicable, hateful, bad, impure,vicious, abandoned, abject, sinful, sordid, ignoble, wicked, villainous,degraded, wretched
ANT:costly, rare, precious, valuable, high, exulted, noble, honorable, lofty,venerable
Inputed by Alan
Definition
adj. worthless: mean: morally impure: wicked: (B.) poor cheap.—adv. Vile′ly.—n. Vile′ness.—ns. Vilificā′tion act of vilifying: defamatory speech: abuse; Vil′ifīer.—v.t. Vil′ify to make vile: to attempt to degrade by slander: to defame:—pa.t. and pa.p. vil′ifīed.—v.t. Vil′ipend to slander vilify.—v.i. to use vilification.
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Examples
- Oh, the dirty, vile, treacherous sod. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Begone, vile insect! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- As vile a spot as I ever saw in my life, said Mr. Palmer. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Perdita, wedded to an imagination, careless of what is behind the veil, whose charactery is in truth faulty and vile, Perdita has renounced me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What to her is your puny outer world passion for the vile creature you chose in your other life? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- All he feared and dreaded was that the vile jargon should come to him by itself, in spite of all he could do to prevent it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I am sure he will put you up to a plan of making that vile, shabby, selfish Duke of Beaufort treat you better. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It is a filthy and vile book, said the priest. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And these vile people reply, without a shadow of proof to justify them, He has his reasons for concealment; we decline to believe him on his oath. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Count is the vilest creature breathing! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- That innocent familiarity turned my blood as if it had been the vilest insult that a man could offer me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We were there five minutes, and when we got out it was hard to tell which of us carried the vilest fragrance. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But I happen to know the story to which you allude; and I also know that a viler falsehood than that story never was told. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I can't help thinking that their badness was more like the faults of a superior South Sea Islander than like the viler side of the 'crowd' to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The smoke had a vile taste, and the taste of a thousand infidel tongues that remained on that brass mouthpiece was viler still. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And the slavery of Rome was a savage slavery, altogether viler than the slavery of Babylon. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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