vile
Example Sentences
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While both these instances are unbecoming, the latter is far more vile.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 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
“What’s the worst, most vile thing a filmmaker could conjure up to hinge an entire movie on?”
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
Yet my eye could not decipher those vendors: they wrapped their heads in bright-colored cloths as cheerful as a party, but faced the world with permanent vile frowns.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Vocabulary lists containing vile
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