vile
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Part of their story, then, is that it’s a vile myth that pregnancy and motherhood can be hard on women.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
One ambulance technician from Birmingham told the union working in the heat was "vile".
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The owner’s vile crankery doesn’t prevail among New York coffee-shop proprietors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
They’ve come to this cesspool to find the villainous Krem, an unrecognizably vile Matthias Schoenaerts with a mug that’s been pierced all over like he face-planted into a pile of thumbtacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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Life calls for adjectives that mean better than best, viler than vile, cooler than cool.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A viler gang of villainous aristocrats is nowhere to be found than this country produces.
From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Theophila Carlile Campbell
You are hot from an inn full of the viler type of cyclist, and I presume that, after their custom, they mocked at your machinery.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Suetonius said of Caligula that it was uncertain which were viler, the unions he contracted, their brevity, or their cause.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
Sit in front of a screen and suffer an endless stream of the vilest videos the internet can offer, approving or denying each clip’s right to stay on a given platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Those who wield hate for personal ambition are among the vilest of human beings.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2024
Generations of Americans have held firm to a version of free speech that makes room for even the vilest of views.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
The best reason to watch it is Jude Law’s swarthily entertaining performance as Henry at his vilest, with state-of-the-art support from a horrifically pus-leaking, maggot-ridden leg wound.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2023
He opened a glass jar, and they were all assaulted with the vilest scent they had ever smelled.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
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