Morally low; base; despicable.
vile accusation
Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.
I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.
That which is vile; vileness.
“I had seen those two work before—in the smoking-room the day prior to their attack on you, if I recollect it correctly, and so, knowing their methods, I am convinced that their enmity is a sufficient guarantee of the integrity of its object. Men such as they must cleave only to the vile, hating all that is noblest and best.”
From Middle English vile, vyle, vyl, from Anglo-Norman ville, Old French vil, vile, from Latin vīlis.
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