vile
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Xavier, a vile keyboard warrior, thinks he might have hooked a politician in rural Murphy, Texas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Ms. Hodge is wonderfully vile as Miriam and her counterpart, Lady Margaret Chalfont.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
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
It comes as Union released testimonies from ambulance workers describing the difficult and "vile" conditions they have had to work in.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“See! There they are,” said Herbert, “coming out of the Tap. What a degraded and vile sight it is!”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Life calls for adjectives that mean better than best, viler than vile, cooler than cool.
From Time Magazine Archive
Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Basiliscus was, if possible, viler than Zeno, and after twenty months Zeno was brought back.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
‘I’d been looking at it ever since I came in, and ’twas viler even than I judged it at first.
From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling
"The son is viler, viler than the sire!"
From Andromache A Play in Three Acts by Gilbert Murray
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
Since then, she's consistently been treated in inexcusably appalling ways, having her privacy violated and the vilest of commentary directed at her.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
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
His eyes snapped open and looked at her, and there was nothing but loathing there, nothing but the vilest contempt.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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