adjective (viler, vilest)
1 (informal) extremely unpleasant or bad:
a vile smell / taste * The weather was really vile most of the time. * He was in a vile mood.
2 (formal) wicked; completely unacceptable:
the vile practice of taking hostages
vilely adverb
vileness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for vile is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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