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vilely

  • a word derived from vile.
    vile
    adjective
    wretchedly bad.

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And we saw clearly enough that they were completely untrustworthy and vilely indifferent to the effects of their malfeasances.

From New York Times Jan. 15, 2016

On Monday Mr Watson was urged to apologise by Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames, who said he had "vilely traduced" the former home secretary.

From BBC Oct. 13, 2015

"It vilely distorts the image of an ideal statesman, patriot, and martyr," the Chicago Journal said of his book.

From Time Magazine Archive

This had tainted all the water so vilely that no one save a sailor burning with thirst could drink it, and nothing would disguise that rotting flavour.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Frank T. Bullen

Oxford is vilely paved for either carriage or cycle.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables