vile
adjective
wretchedly bad.
vilely
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a word derived from
vile.
Example Sentences
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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 Captain he takes in a gold ballasted ship, Each summer to terra damnosa a trip, For which he begs, borrows, scrapes all he can get, And runs his poor owners most vilely in debt.
From The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick by Charles Bradlaugh
We ne'er saw monsters so vilely ill-favoured; with their nasty horns that make one afeard, and their foul nostrils cast up into the air.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
