Example Sentences

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And it should take more effort to wrap our heads around that deed’s vileness than it probably does these days.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2025

“If there is any remaining doubt out there about the urgency of telling this story in this moment in history, the vileness on display last night should put it to rest,” the statement said.

From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2023

All those lumps of vileness should sink to the bottom of the pan.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2021

And yet to read Bolton’s book is to feel ever more furious – not at Trump, whose vileness and venality have been visible from the start, but at Bolton.

From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2020

I am sure that Huxley's further words might be used of the graduates,—that they have "learned to love all beauty, whether of nature or of art, to hate all vileness and respect others as themselves."

From Religion And Health by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)