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A new breeze baptized us in another vile stink.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

As North Korea’s hagiographers rewrote history, they held American missionaries responsible for the country’s misfortunes, while state-sponsored novels, plays and museums depicted them as jackals who subjected Koreans to vile human experiments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026

That is a prospect some Iranians who supported the war, seeing it as a way to remove what they consider a vile regime, may be hoping for.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

"If we start banning people from entering the country because we don't like what they say, I worry where that ends up," he said, while calling West's past comments "really vile".

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

“I’m leaving. Your henchman has terrified me completely. I shall never make the mistake of even passing by this vile pigsty.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson.

From Time Magazine Archive

Life calls for adjectives that mean better than best, viler than vile, cooler than cool.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have never known a viler or more shameful ease than that that possessed me when it became plain that I could go back on him and he be none the wiser.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

But has not Christian Rome witnessed many a viler spectacle?

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

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