vile

Example Sentences

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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

She came to me after that scene, and she goes, “Sonny, in all my years in this business, that is the most vile, disgusting thing I’ve ever had to do.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 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

This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

“I’m intimately acquainted with the term myself, but you . . . surely—” “You are not vile, base, or depraved,” Lyddie said.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson