Vile

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vile
       adj 1: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
              murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of
              slavery appalled them" [syn: {despicable}, {ugly}, {unworthy}]
       2: thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile)
          weather we're having" [syn: {filthy}, {foul}, {nasty}]
       3: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
          "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: {nauseating},
           {nauseous}, {noisome}, {loathsome}, {offensive}, {sickening}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  VILE
       VI Like EMACS (Unix, VI, EMACS)