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Define the word vile

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.
        [1913 Webster] -- Vile"ly, adv. -- Vile"ness, n.
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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]

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

VILE
     VI Like EMACS (Unix, VI, EMACS)