Vile \Vile\ (v[imac]l), a. [Comp. Viler (v[imac]l"[~e]r);
superl. Vilest.] [OE. vil, F. vil, from L. vilis cheap,
worthless, vile, base.]
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1. Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
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A poor man in vile raiment. --James ii. 2.
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The craft either of fishing, which was Peter's, or
of making tents, which was Paul's, were [was] more
vile than the science of physic. --Ridley.
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The inhabitants account gold but as a vile thing.
--Abp. Abbot.
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2. Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful in the
sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad. "Such vile base
practices." --Shak.
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Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee ? --Job
xl. 4.
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Syn: See Base.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
vile
adj 1: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of
slavery appalled them" [syn: despicable, ugly, unworthy]
2: thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile)
weather we're having" [syn: filthy, foul, nasty]
3: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
"nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating,
nauseous, noisome, loathsome, offensive, sickening]
WordNet (r) 2.0
288 Moby Thesaurus words for "vile":
Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, abusive,
amoral, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base,
base-minded, bawdy, beastly, beggarly, below contempt,
beneath contempt, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy,
blasphemous, blue, brackish, brutal, calumniatory, calumnious,
cheap, cheesy, cloying, coarse, comminatory, common, contemptible,
contumelious, corrupt, corrupted, crappy, criminal, crude, crummy,
cursing, damnable, damnatory, dark, debased, debauched, degenerate,
degraded, degrading, denunciatory, deplorable, depraved,
despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting,
dreadful, dysphemistic, egregious, enormous, epithetic, evil,
excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, fecal,
feculent, fetid, fiendish, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, flyblown,
forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frowsty,
frowy, frowzy, fulminatory, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gaudy,
gimcracky, gloppy, grave, graveolent, grievous, gross, gunky,
hateful, heinous, hellish, high, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble,
ignominious, ill-smelling, immoral, imprecatory, improper, impure,
infamous, iniquitous, ithyphallic, knavish, lamentable, lewd,
little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, lurid,
maggoty, maledictory, malodorous, mangy, mawkish, mean, measly,
mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy,
miserable, moldy, monstrous, mucky, musty, nasty, naughty,
nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome,
notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious,
odorous, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, paltry,
pathetic, peccant, perverted, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous,
poky, poor, pornographic, profane, puky, putrid, rancid, rank,
rascally, raunchy, raw, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, recreant,
reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible,
reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald,
risque, roguish, rotten, rubbishy, sad, salacious, scabby,
scampish, scandalous, scatologic, schlock, scoundrelly, scrubby,
scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, scuzzy,
servile, shabby, shameful, shameless, shitty, shocking, shoddy,
sickening, sinful, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy,
small, smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking-room, smutty, sordid,
sorry, spoiled, sposhy, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy,
sulfurous, sultry, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery,
two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
ugly, unchaste, unclean, unforgivable, unmentionable, unpardonable,
unprintable, unrepeatable, unspeakable, unworthy, valueless,
vicious, villainous, vituperative, vomity, vulgar, weevily, wicked,
woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky
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