Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being vile
- noun Moral or intellectual deficiency; imperfection; depravity; degradation; impurity; wickedness; sinfulness; extreme badness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
vile - noun a vile act
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
- noun the quality of being wicked
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Examples
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Your hate will consume you but your vileness is there for all to see.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Maliki Speech Interrupted By War Protestor 2006
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All of this vileness is really a pathetic attempt to cover how much you want him.
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At last, beneath him in vileness, had the other sunk himself.
A DAY'S LODGING 2010
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No, the vileness is that it is an utterly bogus claim, a sort of Potemkin village only foolinng the ignorant American press corps, which years to mark Iraq down as a ‘victory’.
Matthew Yglesias » Rice Slams Non-Inclusive United States 2009
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Heat rose at our backs and a resounding voice, deep like a massive bell, demanded, “What vileness is this?”
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The Labour party and the BBC are two arms of the same beast; lies, threats and vileness is what they spread.
Fiddling statistics Not a sheep 2008
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The Labour party and the BBC are two arms of the same beast; lies, threats and vileness is what they spread.
Archive 2008-12-01 Not a sheep 2008
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Likewise if you receive a portion of fish from which every piece of herbal seasoning has not been scraped off, and the herbal seasoning is loathsome to you, and steeped in vileness, again I say, refrain from screaming.
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At last, beneath him in vileness, had the other sunk himself.
A Day's Lodging 1907
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They are solid, but also liquid--Shakespeare's vile jelly embodies the sense that the vileness is a function of their half-solid, half-liquid jellied abjection.
Eyeball Adam Roberts Project 2008
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