vile
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Ms. Hodge is wonderfully vile as Miriam and her counterpart, Lady Margaret Chalfont.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said the "vile" sanctions would be met with "greater unity and determination from our people."
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
"The charges against Raúl are a vile lie," he says, echoing the government line.
From BBC ● May 22, 2026
The day passed in a blur of bathing, cleaning, feeding, and forcing that vile tea into Fern, Lottie, and Perilee.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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
Ye shall not beg, like gratis-given Bland, Sent with a pass and vagrant through the land; Nor sail with Ward, to Ape-and-monkey climes, Where vile Mundungus trucks for viler rhymes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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 Oliver [pseud.] Onions
"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
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
That could rapidly change if Musk's choice to gut the existing content moderation teams that kept the vilest, most abusive and offensive content off the platform isn't replaced with an equally robust system.
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2022
They invite our scorn, which is not to say they are immune to our pity: Even the vilest character turns out to be in the grip of a deeply misguided longing for transcendence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
His voice is agitated, it sounds almost dignified as he says: “I tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war.”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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