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Definition of vile:

  • (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea;
  • (adjective) morally reprehensible

Sentence Examples:

Through the roar of surging blood she could barely hear the vile words he was dinning into her ears.

"My Savior died on a Cross for me, and shall I, a vile sinner, be content to die in my bed?"

I could overcome the vile teaching of her mother and bring her to a realization of what is ahead of her.

Don't Lilly and mother live in a wretched cabin in vile Clinton while strangers rest under our father's roof?

The gentlemen who run this association have been checked from their vile trade by the strict regime of Bingham.

Every vile and filthy thing, crime, disease, misery, are all equally legitimate products of the working of this law.

Oh, how vile is the mastery which matter still has over mind in many of the concerns of life!

It has brought a vile insomnia with it, for I cannot sleep now for the expectation of his coming.

"Stop your lies, or I'll pluck that vile tongue of yours out of your mouth, and cast it in your face!"

He was a vile wretch when drinking, little better when sober, but he was as honest as the sun.

Surely no one can doubt, after these disclosures, that the Princess Charlotte fell a victim to a vile conspiracy.

Have I seemed to you a creature so vile or weak that you could have a title to put such shame upon me?

"You are too good for that; I should have liked to think of you as far apart from those vile scenes."

A similar fashion might be revived at the present epoch, with advantage to the banking account of vile man.

The cure of the vile mirth of youth seemed after all to be love and the anxious care of other lives.

A heap of rubbish never looks so vile, or so disagreeable, as when a fresh flower is seen thrown upon it.

And he offered his head to be bandaged, desirous of avoiding as much as possible the contact of those vile men.

He is as noble as yours is vile, as young as yours is old, and as handsome as yours is ugly.

I heard her history from his lips, and made it my duty to rescue her from her vile associations.

This danger in itself would have bred hatred of her, but, in addition, there were the recent vile tales.

They did not seem vile to him now as they had seemed that first evening in the hotel office.

It appears to me that Shakespeare began the play intending to present the vile and cruel Richard of tradition.

They managed to choke down the food, vile as it was, and seemed to feel a little better for it.

The climate was severe, the sanitary condition of the place vile, and the habits of the people immoral.

Don't talk to me about them; it won't help you to get my consent to marry that vile old creature.

He waited for nearly an hour, and in a vile temper took up his hat and stick and went away.

It must be some occurrence of very terrible, vile, or grotesque effect that can take our minds from our business.

He was a prisoner in this vile hole, while I had brought the woman he loved to mock at him.

The savage oaths that reached her now and again were evidence enough that the fellow was in a vile temper.

And the dependent and submissive hand is a noble hand; but the independent or imperative hand is a vile one.

He said, at last, just as Brisket had actually risen from his seat to put his vile threat into execution.

They despised the ministry of the Word as a vile office; therefore they seized upon another office, a secular one.

They knew him to be vile enough even for that, and so kept him in the dark about their design.

The struggling mass released its burden to stretch its vile length toward the dark caves under the cliffs.

For want of such a power, what vile proceedings have of late disgraced almost every legislative measure of Rhode Island!

Such a spectacle will no doubt give pleasure to the vile multitude, which insults to-day that which it adored yesterday.

A vile trade, I tell you; a trade to give any young mind a small, cunning twist from the outset!

A primitive region of destitute farmers and vile politicians, it was exposed to world gaze by the collapse of communism.

What should you be doing for yourself, if you did make a lady of this vile creature, and marry her?

"Remember, you vile woman, you, that you are in my hands," said the master, rapping his fingers on the table.

What did you mean by sending us the two volumes of that vile novel to upset us poor country folk?

Just picture them playing the same vile trick on me when I at last fall into the great deep sleep.

About a week after, they heard from Cornelius that his holiday was not to make its appearance before vile November.

Just picture them playing the same vile trick on me when I at last fall into the great deep sleep.

To sacrifice my reputation, my character, my rank in life, to the indulgence of a mean and a vile appetite!

I have shown you cause to fear that your father has it in mind to compass a vile treachery, perhaps a murder.

Yet had it been true I, who had been a witness of the man's vile conduct, could never have blamed you.

This is enough to make him remain a stranger to honorable occupations, and confine himself to the practice of vile trades.

For a long time he was plunged into the deepest gloom, regarding himself as a sinner too vile to be forgiven.

And, though he loved the girl after his fashion, he desired to wound her by no such vile proposal.

Suffering, sickness, crime, tyranny, war, were all growths whose roots were buried in ignorance and sucked its vile nourishment.

You know that some people, envious of my reputation are always throwing that defect in my face, like a vile insult.

If he is without virtue he becomes no better than a mere animal, and an animal devoid of intelligence is a vile thing.

He alternates between the desire to escape from so vile a world, and the pleasure of exposing its vice and fraud.

The final line of the first stanza lacks a syllable, which might be supplied by replacing vile with hateful.

Am I indeed so low and vile a thing that you should turn away with never a single word of farewell?

In that case, it's a vile profession; you had better be a mason, monsieur, if your talents lie in that direction.'

A vile thing is done in one of the towns of Benjamin and the fact is published in all the tribes.

"The cook, he is very abusive, I tried to instruct him about your meals, but he answers me with vile names."

Be frank, have nothing more to do with the vile man, and you will find again the father you have lost.

He should love history, poetry, and perhaps music, and in his conduct avoid everything that is gross and vile.

And it was a very old egg, as was proved by the vile odor which spread through the classroom.

Methinks the length of years he had to wait discouraged him, by the vile temper that put him in.

Was it not thus that all those vile changes were effected which she saw around her on every side?

Had the vile nonsense talked by that idiot Whittaker had any influence in inducing her to take that step?

Saw myself so vile and unworthy that I could not look my people in the face when I came to preach.

That she could act so cunning and so vile a part, and I not detect her, was wholly incredible.

Nothing too vile can be said of, nothing too hard can be done to, such a horrible iniquity as witchcraft is!

Take him away, guards, and strike off his head, for his body is too vile to nail to any cross.

This is the way you treat me, you vile man, for putting myself to all this trouble on your account.

Until I can get this vile piece of romance out of your head, you shall remain a prisoner in your own room.

In early life he had it very strongly impressed upon his mind that some men were perfect, others hopelessly vile.

Solomon, well understanding the vile tricks of the eastern Queen, has changed the verdict of death into that of exile.

I replied, pausing; for I was curious to know in what manner I had insulted so vile a creature as he was.

Secure, as they thought, on such a vile night, the enemy were completely surprised, but put up a stubborn resistance.

"Yes, he has assumed your name," said the priest to the prince, "but do you know for what vile purpose?"

Some were whipped or put in the stocks, where low people called them vile names and threw mud at them.

To this, others replied for the Duke, suggesting a score of vile uses to which the money had been put.

The lights placed on shore, to represent a vessel of large size, were part and parcel of his vile scheme.

For truly we ourselves say one thing and do another; we speak fair and honest things, and do vile ones.

They were men of his own race, and he knew their vile instincts, for was he not one of them?

Were all men like this, Fin Cooper and the rest, or was John Garnet a vile exception to his kind?

He was the one who smoked, and it was both a vile pipe and strong tobacco he was sucking on.

Such vicious thoughts were usually so remote from his normal character that the sudden vile invasion produced a swift reaction.

I am angry with my vile memory that I cannot now recollect more of our conversation, which was very animated.

You have given boldness to the vile and base, and discouraged those who were ready to die for their country.

It's the double standard that has landed us where we are; it has made men vile and kept women weak.

He is convinced that it is merely a cover for a vile intrigue by which he is to be disgraced and ruined.

Your house will be wrecked, your home destroyed; your work taken from you, and all manner of vile insult heaped upon you.

As this one was a vile rough fellow, taking the saying heavily, he began to make disturbance with his father.

Their sweethearts were vile creatures, their love affairs had all the horrors of the love affairs of a great city.

In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.

Refuse not too vile for the public eye is thrown into the middle of the streets in front of the houses.

He did not tell me the reason; but I suppose it to be that which is common to all vile persons.

Breathless, he informed her of his encounter with the Mission ladies, and the priest's vile trick to shame him.

This vile body of mine shall be torn limb from limb rather than one hair of her head shall be plucked.

Every one ought to keep their liver dark, and then the vile thing wouldn't be a nuisance to every one else.

The thing is grotesque, vile, horrible; the very stones of the place seemed soaked with terror, cruelty and death.

So, in spite of all my tears and prayers, the vile deed was done, as I think for no good cause.

That her father was vile beyond compare seemed positive; that her mother might have been scarce better was probable.