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adjective

Vile adj. (compar. viler; superl. vilest)

Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable. "A poor man in vile raiment." "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." "The inhabitants account gold but as a vile thing."

Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad. "Such vile base practices." "Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee?"

Synonyms: See Base.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vile" Quotes from Famous Books

... "That's vile!" flushed Prescott indignantly, as he got up to make the circuit of the room. "The Gardiner fellows have always been good, fair sportsmen. They wouldn't be back of ...

— The High School Pitcher - Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond • H. Irving Hancock

... Prince of] Heth advanced with men and horses well armed [or full of provender?]: there were three men to each chariot.(686) There were gathered together all the swiftest men of the land of the vile Hittites, all furnished with arms ... and waited stealthily to the northwest of the fortress of Katesh. Then they fell upon the bowmen of Pharaoh, into the middle of them, as they marched along and did not expect a battle. ...

— Egyptian Literature

... from the beginning, they were not born until the sons of God had degenerated. But seculum (olam) connotes a second predicate, that of substance, so that Moses explains the nature of the power in which they trusted to have been secular or worldly. They despised the ministry of the Word as a vile office; therefore they seized upon another office, a secular one. The very same thing our Papists have done. It has pleased them better to hold ample revenues and worldly kingdoms than to be hated of all men for ...

— Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II - Luther on Sin and the Flood • Martin Luther

... the cruel measure of wholesale expatriation, it was not put in execution till every resource of patience and persuasion had been tried in vain. The agents of the French Court, civil, military, and ecclesiastical, had made some act of force a necessity. We have seen by what vile practices they produced in Acadia a state of things intolerable, and impossible of continuance. They conjured up the tempest; and when it burst on the heads of the unhappy people, they gave no help. The Government of Louis ...

— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman

... try to run, Fletcher?" he asked, as he found Tom and his two companions seated in "durance vile," ...

— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston

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