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  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"; "a slimy little liar" [syn:
             despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy,
             worthless, wretched]
      2: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
         "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating,
         nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive,
         sickening, vile]

  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)