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Definition of vile:

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

Sentence Examples:

And now, now, just as their juices are mellowing, each of those trees has been covered over with a most vile and treacherous netting!

All my life I've suffered that vile plague, dependence, and it's poisoned my blood and sapped my strength and perverted my reason.

Her hand, which gathered a grimy plaid shawl at her throat, trembled ceaselessly from privation, and the vile liquor privation had brought.

For colic, powdered horse's teeth, dung of swine, asses' kidneys, mice excretion made into a plaster, and other equally vile and unsavory compounds.

And the Countess, as Darby's vile insinuations reached her ears, drew herself up and gently putting aside the Queen, turned and faced him.

As he revolved these dark thoughts in his vile breast, the hand he held moved suddenly, and the sleeper murmured in her dreams.

Our bread has usually been vile, and often was not to be had at all, and everything has been unusually filthy and smelly.

Kilometer after kilometer of this vile road is paved with blocks of stone as big as one's head, half of which are out of place.

He knew, and he quivered with rage and hatred, that she was all these vile things, that she was everything vile and detestable.

The shuffling of feet and the murmur of rough voices once more sounded through the room; again the odor of vile tobacco filled the air.

He had wounded him sore, but he felt no sense of elation, for he knew he was contending with a vile serpent in human guise.

These tiny, stupid, loathsome vermin are only a senseless fist that is governed by a vile, calculating mind, moved by a diabolical will.

Gandhi regards the pariah system as a blot on Hinduism; it is a vile deformation of the real doctrine, and he suffers intolerably by it.

Over rough streets or smooth he plies the cruel whip, shouts vile epithets at his half-wild steed, and rattles along at a furious pace.

The vile, the ugly, the painful are not fit subjects for music; music renounces, contravenes, negatives itself when it attempts their delineation.

John Louder, you are a notorious liar, and I warn you to be careful in the future how your vile tongue breathes calumny against innocent people.

That I, whose only faults are too much kindness, too much generosity, should be chained for life to such a vile, deceitful, cruel monster!'

The National Guards who stood in the neighborhood used to laugh at this, and hurl all sorts of low, vile words at the princesses.

The leading angel called me a most vile name, in an anxious undertone, and poked his spear violently in the pit of my stomach.

As our immortal bard, that says everything so much better than anyone else, says; and rest our souls, they're gone with their vile noise.

A little farther on is the vile dance house into which the inhabitants of this neighborhood crawl for the lowest stage of their degradation.

Puccini brings me every lesson such a vile scrawl, that I confess, up to the present, I do no more than stare at it in despair.

And when the person is a vile offender, who is rather a plague and burden to the commonwealth than any necessary member of it.

I do not think that ladies who, in pursuance of a vile fashion, wear hats, can be aware of the loss of charm to the face.

Wealth excites the most savage enmity there, because it is conceived as a means for gratifying appetites of the most selfish and vile kind.

Though they once nourished the piety of thousands of earnest people, they are now considered too vile to have a place in any public museum.

And I prove these to be vile by an especial and most evident defect; and I do this when I say, "How vile and incomplete."

This man has amassed a fortune at this vile business and tries to pose as respectable, because he has a lot of this blood money.

No, she was something, she was a retailer of gross humors, a vile sinner; it might be kindling more than a light, an eternal flame.

The tale found too many willing ears; and Annie was pronounced a vile, artful deceiver, by those who envied her talents and beauty.

The ruling classes raged and stormed against the vile conspirators who had disappointed them in their expectations of coining money out of cobwebs.

Charlie, by the sound of his voice and the vile terms that he hurled after the secretary, was obviously beside himself with rage.

This vile war, the most loathsome in history, appears the more horrible, by the almost total absence of free inspiration and spontaneous impulse.

This confirmed her belief in his story, and enabled him to make her the easy dupe of all the vile inventions which were to follow.

When told of the strange beliefs entertained of her she strenuously asserted that she was only a miserable woman and a vile worm.

When an assault is made on some vile custom the sardonic laugh is heard of those who find their profit and their pleasure in it.

The work of doling it out is done by young maidens, who are during the process subjected to ceaseless volleys of vile and vulgar abuse.

They clung desperately to habitations so vile that brutes would have forsaken them for cleaner and warmer retreats in archway and by roadside.

The power of the first Otto was so overwhelming that the papacy could not escape the temporary subjection which its vile state deserved.

Augustine, if you do not do it, I shall believe that I have loved the most vile, the most cowardly, the most despicable of men.

Never is the mind more vile than when, to excuse a fault, it becomes the accomplice of it; then it is not deceived, but prostituted.

Ah, I knew you would listen to reason; I knew there was nothing so vile and degraded that you would not do to save yourself.

I seized that sneeze by the throat, tripped and squeezed the life out of its vile body, then flung it back into the moonlit waters.

He paused, remembering everything himself, as I could see; and the human compassion in his face should have been sufficient answer to my vile misgivings.

Unspeakably vile in his private life, the king had no redeeming patriotism, no sense of responsibility to his country for even his public acts.

Vile rhyming poets, without merit or virtue, sold their villainous productions to the enemies of the state to be used in goading the people to riot.

She did not succumb, but she grew whiter and whiter save when some vile insinuation brought a momentary wave of crimson across her face.

And even if you were right, if I really had determined on a vile action, is it not merciless on your part to speak to me like that?

We had travelled in this way for ten days, camping every evening at the vile wells which offered a small quantity of abominable water.

This morning, in the presence of all the servants, you called me by the most vile, abominable name, which heaven forbid I should repeat!

We like to know that these bold and honest fellows contrived to live, and to keep bold and honest, among absurd and vile surroundings.

It is an acutely humiliating fact that there exists no man too ugly, too foolish, too brutal, too conceited and too vile to find a wife.

The picture was vile and repugnant; so perhaps was the appeal to the sister whose only wish was to bear a child, but Mme.

All agreed that the situation was vile; that word, at least, may be taken as the resultant of the various forcible epithets actually employed.

He was so deeply convinced of the correctness of his position that he would have been a miserable man, a vile hypocrite, had he acted otherwise.

My patience was exhausted already, and raising myself upon my elbow, I loaded him with every vile epithet I could lay my tongue to.

Or had her father so harshly painted the picture of her lover that she had been led to believe him utterly vile and unprincipled?

He whom you have been honoring is nothing more than a vile impostor, who has robbed his master alike of his name and of his rights.

The patron talked vile French but was a kindly soul, and his small boy, Gaston, aged about seven, became a great friend of mine.

Where is this vile body which is a compound of phlegm and other humors, and where are its beauty, grace, loveliness and other qualities?

Luckily you were not allowed to proceed for more than a moment with your vile harangue which (if I understand rightly) was in praise of wine.

Cressida is depicted as a vile wanton, a drab by nature; but it is no part even of this conception to make her soulless and devilish.

Ah, you were too fond of him to see how he changed for the worse, when your vile sister joined you, and took possession of him again.

If you must celebrate his undoing, better take these three sixpences and make yourselves ill on lemon fizz, or pink marshmallows, or vile licorice cigars.

There was no one there to see beyond the horror of the red, blind eye, of the dull, white eye, of the vile, gangrene smell.

And yet, vile as it was both by its motive and by its agents, it marks an important point in the progress of American independence.

"Well, you look capable of it," said the Prefect, with an undisguised sneer, "and I will gladly use any instruments to crush this vile sect."

There they sat, letting the slow, vile stream in the gutter run over their feet, and there they were sitting three hours later.

This space was likewise covered with yew trees, clipped and cut in every conceivable form, after the vile taste of the seventeenth century.

The next juror up related another case of Hen's vile tactics, and the judge threatened to send him to jail if anything more bobbed up.

All around her, the representative of this vile destructive species, was the slow, persistent hatred of the earth, which longed to be at peace again.

This good little man, with all his constancy and fervor, had not a large enough soul to see so vile a prodigal feasted without resentment.

The crew would come ashore and have a regular spree, some of them drinking the vile concoction sold at a shanty bar by the beach.

And so in war the Chinese have been showing us how destructive is their nature, how vile they are in pillaging and looting and destroying.

They ought to grow right out in the open air, like apples, and not have such vile porcupine skins on them, just to plague the boys.

"It is a calumny, vile as your own base heart," exclaimed La Tour; "and so help me, heaven, as I shall one day prove its falsehood."

Already the burning thirst engendered by the raw, vile whiskey was making them lick their dry lips, making their throats work painfully.

If you think that in your house things are being talked about that would shock your mother or sister, don't merely shun it as something vile.

With such examples all around, I soon learned the habit of drinking, along with every other vile habit to which my companions were addicted.

Bound as he was and shaken in the vile, jolting cart, he preserved his calm and even showed a certain solicitude to maintain an easy posture.

The phrases that fell from his lips, however, could they have been heard, would have absolved him of any such vile or vulgar intention.

One of the disadvantages connected with a public career is, that every vile scoundrel who is too cowardly to face you openly can libel you anonymously.

I had heard of one of them even before my arrival as a vile and base creature, horribly corrupt, doing the work of spy and informer.

To add ornament to an object that is intrinsically vile or hideous, does but augment the existing bad qualities by adding to them a glaring incongruity.

A woman who has seen so much of this vile, odious world, as I have, is not to be told that too much familiarity breeds contempt.

Here, too, a woman might, years hence, if not forgive, bend her head resignedly over the man's vile nature, supposing strong passion his motive.

Vile women, dropping the mask of their sex, pursued men in long, haggard, furious lines over the artificial mounds that groaned under the chase.

Through the efficient help of a poor, weak fool who loved me I made you believe Edith false and vile, and taunted you into deserting her!

Brown was an emissary of the gang who had been sent to murder Sir Charles, and had performed her vile errand only too well.

How ruthless would be the destruction, how irreparable the ruin, when a casual clouded glance through sluggish smoke could tell so vile a tale!

Now, young man, I had a letter the other day from my poor son, who still complains of vile ill-treatment and lack of protection.

Were you an accomplice of that abandoned wretch, I wonder, of whose vile arts he became a victim, and of whom you used to be such an admirer?

He has his body ruined by debauchery, his intellect almost in abeyance, and his heart and affections set on what is vile and degrading.

"The slum," says this writer, "is not at all so unspeakably vile," and measures for relief based on my arraignment "must be necessarily abortive."

By slow degrees these feelings had hardened into insanity, and to gratify the vile promptings of her disordered mind she would hesitate at nothing.

It is better to let the bones of the Saint remain in this consecrated soil than to have them touched by the vile hands of heretics!

However, in this short space of time, without understanding the vile arts of a gambler, he has collected between two and three hundred pounds.

No end, I think, of the undeserved calamities of a dear soul, who had been so unhappily driven and betrayed into the hands of a vile libertine!

This inn blossoms forth upon my as yet unaccustomed vision as a peculiarly vile and dingy little hovel, smoke-blackened and untidy as a village smithy.

My offering was to cover with moss the picnic papers, tins, and broken bottles, with which man who is vile defiles every prospect.