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vile

[vahyl] / vaɪl /


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"This is extremely important to the PM and he has personally intervened to ensure everything possible is being done so that vile groomers are dealt with in the way their victims deserve."

From BBC Aug. 6, 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

But there is significant and respected scholarship that goes much further and holds that the Constitution is a pro-slavery, and pro-Southern, document which protected that vile institution.

From Salon May 14, 2026

He had no shoes at all and his feet were wrapped in rags and cardboard tied with green twine and any number of layers of vile clothing showed through the tears and holes in it.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

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

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

‘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

There is a viler aspect of this "thanksgiving" business.

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

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

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

“Use your power,” she said, “and make the hussy fall madly in love with the vilest and most despicable creature there is in the whole world.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton




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