Definition of vile in English:

vile

adjective vʌɪlvaɪl

1Extremely unpleasant.
he has a vile temper
vile smells
Example sentencesExamples
- In the summer of 2002 he said the smell was sometimes so vile, his wife Maureen was unable to sleep.
- Howard didn't remember the stuff smelling quite so vile before, but then he never had it applied to his hide in quite such liberal quantities.
- After being orphaned, he's living with his dreadful aunt, uncle and cousin, all of whom are vile and nasty to Potter.
- Make war as vile and horrid as you can, he reasoned, and people will feel all the less inclined to resort to it.
- Harris was a Glaswegian Greek-Cypriot with a vile temper.
- Apart from bees, most insects seem to have little or no purpose in life, but everything about rats is evil, dirty and vile.
- The amount of dog mess on the pathway is absolutely vile and disgusting, in places it is totally unavoidable.
- I won't have such vile, offensive language on this show.
- Also, my lack of sense of taste and smell means that I can't truly appreciate just how vile the office coffee is.
- They are now demanding that the old sewers beneath the streets of the city be brought up to date in an attempt to rid the area of the vile smell.
- He also remembers a bottle of brown medicine that was so vile to smell that even his mother had to hold it at arm's length.
- I have never understood why little old ladies cover themselves and their houses in vile lavender smelling scents but I do now.
- He was sure I'd would say something vulgar, vile, or extremely arrogant; it was how I'd worked.
- It was, as you would expect, a pretty vile and unpleasant week.
- I know Rob has been going through a tough time lately, but his blog has become vile and nasty.
- Perfume that smells heavenly on your sister can smell vile on you.
- Seagulls really are disgusting, nasty, vile animals, naturally horrible, and made worse by hanging out with humans presumably.
- Get on plane, decline the vile coffee, and fly to next city.
- As Michael opened his mouth I smelt the vile stench of liquor on his breath.
- Well, scientists have created a smell that is so vile that it can make even the tough guys gag.
Synonyms
foul, nasty, unpleasant, bad, disagreeable, horrid, horrible, dreadful, abominable, atrocious, offensive, obnoxious, odious, unsavoury, repulsive, off-putting, repellent, revolting, repugnant, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, hateful, nauseating, sickening
base, low, mean, wretched, disgraceful, appalling, shocking, ugly, vulgar, sorry, shabby, shameful, dishonourable, execrable, heinous, abhorrent, deplorable, monstrous, wicked, evil, dark, dirty, vicious, iniquitous, sinful, corrupt, sordid, depraved, perverted, debased, reprobate, degenerate, debauched, dissolute, contemptible, despicable, reprehensible, diabolical, diabolic, devilish, fiendish, hellish, damnable
informal yucky, sick-making, gut-churning, icky, gross, God-awful, low-down, rotten, sick
British informal beastly
Northern Irish informal bogging
North American informal lousy, vomitous
vulgar slang shitty
literary noisome
archaic scurvy, disgustful, loathly
rare egregious, flagitious
1. 1.1 Morally bad; wicked.
  as vile a rogue as ever lived
  Example sentencesExamples
  After all, the thought of murdering Claudius, vile and hated though he was, still repelled Hamlet.
  I do not see how you gain by adding to his family's pain with your vile insults and cruel words.
  Although the vile black substance is poisonous to all moving and breathing things, it is very beneficial to plants.
  A top cricket coach has been jailed for 15 months after downloading vile pictures of children on his computer.
  Many regarded him as a saint, but he was an evil, vile, horrible man.
  Everything about the murder case has been vile.
  His character is so vile and cruel that he seems to have lost his soul somewhere in the jungles of Peru.
  It was used as a place where the pagan worshipers did all sorts of vile and wicked things - including burning children alive as sacrifices to the idols Moloch and Baal.
  Am I talking about that vile new scourge, black tar heroin?
  Your vile protest signs and offensive chants made sure of that.
  ‘The terrorists who are seeking to destroy the country have struck a cruel blow with this vile act today,’ he said.
  The pages blaze with a passionate desire to see justice for the people tortured and murdered by his vile regime.
  By this time, Dorian Grey had become totally corrupt, as vile and ugly as the figure in the portrait.
  In the end, you have killed a vile murderer who would otherwise have escaped justice, perhaps to kill again.
  At the heart of the story was a particularly vile villain.
  She pushed him over the edge, from simple gigolo to vile murderer.
  A poisonous racist, a supporter of eugenics, a proponent of mass murder, a vile imperialist and… an apologist for Fascism?
  If you were living under that kind of vile, murderous dictatorship, would you not want someone to come in and save you?
  This vile display shows a contempt for all the rules of warfare, and all the bounds of civilized behavior.
  These were vile acts of political murder, emerging from a political context created, in part, by Western statecraft and driven by political goals.
  Synonyms
  wicked, evil, iniquitous, heinous, villainous, diabolical, diabolic, fiendish, vicious, murderous, barbarous, cruel, black, dark, rotten, nefarious, foul, monstrous, shocking, outrageous, atrocious, abominable, reprehensible, despicable, execrable, corrupt, degenerate, reprobate, sordid, depraved, dissolute, bad, base, mean, low, dishonourable, dishonest, unscrupulous, unprincipled, underhand, roguish
2. 1.2archaic Of little worth or value.
  all the feasts that thou hast shared erewhile, to mine shall be but vile

Derivatives

vilely

adverb ˈvʌɪlliˈvaɪlli

He felt that ‘they are more vilely oppressed than they have ever been before in their history.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Of course, there was always some-one who drank so much as to get vilely sick, but my point is that European teenagers have a much more relaxed, indifferent attitude towards alcohol than their counterparts in such countries as America.
- A friend loaned me a much-thumbed copy, vilely printed in Tangiers, and evidently smuggled in by a merchant sailor.
- And could he trust the word again of anyone who so vilely wronged him?
- Most vilely, he claims I was beset by an ‘explosive urge’ to blow up his house.
- England fans should be banned on aesthetic grounds, on the grounds of noise abatement, on the grounds of taste, on the grounds of racism, on the grounds of threatening behaviour, on the grounds of vilely invasive demeanour.

vileness

noun ˈvʌɪlnəsˈvaɪlnəs

He was conscious of his ‘abominable vileness.’
Example sentencesExamples
- The vileness, shrillness and emptiness of the media, its playing on fear, its relentless and cynical manipulation of public opinion - all that is present.
- I hunt down and exterminate soul-less monsters of unimaginable horror and vileness.
- Women have been writing books about the vileness and tedium of domestic life for ever.
- Here, I seized what I thought was the opportunity to turn the subject away from catastrophe, horror, vileness and woe.
- Men who practice viciousness and vileness are shown no mercy by the gods.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin vilis 'of low value'.

Rhymes

aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file, guile, I'll, interfile, isle, Kabyle, kyle, lisle, Lyle, Mikhail, mile, Nile, pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, Weil, while, wile, worthwhile

Definition of vile in US English:

vile

adjectivevaɪlvīl

1Extremely unpleasant.
he has a vile temper
vile smells
Example sentencesExamples
- In the summer of 2002 he said the smell was sometimes so vile, his wife Maureen was unable to sleep.
- Also, my lack of sense of taste and smell means that I can't truly appreciate just how vile the office coffee is.
- Make war as vile and horrid as you can, he reasoned, and people will feel all the less inclined to resort to it.
- I know Rob has been going through a tough time lately, but his blog has become vile and nasty.
- He was sure I'd would say something vulgar, vile, or extremely arrogant; it was how I'd worked.
- Well, scientists have created a smell that is so vile that it can make even the tough guys gag.
- After being orphaned, he's living with his dreadful aunt, uncle and cousin, all of whom are vile and nasty to Potter.
- Howard didn't remember the stuff smelling quite so vile before, but then he never had it applied to his hide in quite such liberal quantities.
- I won't have such vile, offensive language on this show.
- Apart from bees, most insects seem to have little or no purpose in life, but everything about rats is evil, dirty and vile.
- I have never understood why little old ladies cover themselves and their houses in vile lavender smelling scents but I do now.
- Perfume that smells heavenly on your sister can smell vile on you.
- The amount of dog mess on the pathway is absolutely vile and disgusting, in places it is totally unavoidable.
- He also remembers a bottle of brown medicine that was so vile to smell that even his mother had to hold it at arm's length.
- Harris was a Glaswegian Greek-Cypriot with a vile temper.
- It was, as you would expect, a pretty vile and unpleasant week.
- As Michael opened his mouth I smelt the vile stench of liquor on his breath.
- Get on plane, decline the vile coffee, and fly to next city.
- They are now demanding that the old sewers beneath the streets of the city be brought up to date in an attempt to rid the area of the vile smell.
- Seagulls really are disgusting, nasty, vile animals, naturally horrible, and made worse by hanging out with humans presumably.
Synonyms
foul, nasty, unpleasant, bad, disagreeable, horrid, horrible, dreadful, abominable, atrocious, offensive, obnoxious, odious, unsavoury, repulsive, off-putting, repellent, revolting, repugnant, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, hateful, nauseating, sickening
1. 1.1 Morally bad; wicked.
  as vile a rogue as ever lived
  Example sentencesExamples
  She pushed him over the edge, from simple gigolo to vile murderer.
  I do not see how you gain by adding to his family's pain with your vile insults and cruel words.
  A top cricket coach has been jailed for 15 months after downloading vile pictures of children on his computer.
  Although the vile black substance is poisonous to all moving and breathing things, it is very beneficial to plants.
  Everything about the murder case has been vile.
  These were vile acts of political murder, emerging from a political context created, in part, by Western statecraft and driven by political goals.
  Your vile protest signs and offensive chants made sure of that.
  Many regarded him as a saint, but he was an evil, vile, horrible man.
  By this time, Dorian Grey had become totally corrupt, as vile and ugly as the figure in the portrait.
  Am I talking about that vile new scourge, black tar heroin?
  ‘The terrorists who are seeking to destroy the country have struck a cruel blow with this vile act today,’ he said.
  After all, the thought of murdering Claudius, vile and hated though he was, still repelled Hamlet.
  It was used as a place where the pagan worshipers did all sorts of vile and wicked things - including burning children alive as sacrifices to the idols Moloch and Baal.
  If you were living under that kind of vile, murderous dictatorship, would you not want someone to come in and save you?
  A poisonous racist, a supporter of eugenics, a proponent of mass murder, a vile imperialist and… an apologist for Fascism?
  His character is so vile and cruel that he seems to have lost his soul somewhere in the jungles of Peru.
  In the end, you have killed a vile murderer who would otherwise have escaped justice, perhaps to kill again.
  The pages blaze with a passionate desire to see justice for the people tortured and murdered by his vile regime.
  At the heart of the story was a particularly vile villain.
  This vile display shows a contempt for all the rules of warfare, and all the bounds of civilized behavior.
  Synonyms
  wicked, evil, iniquitous, heinous, villainous, diabolical, diabolic, fiendish, vicious, murderous, barbarous, cruel, black, dark, rotten, nefarious, foul, monstrous, shocking, outrageous, atrocious, abominable, reprehensible, despicable, execrable, corrupt, degenerate, reprobate, sordid, depraved, dissolute, bad, base, mean, low, dishonourable, dishonest, unscrupulous, unprincipled, underhand, roguish
2. 1.2archaic Of little worth or value.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from Latin vilis ‘of low value’.

单词	vile
释义	Definition of vile in English: vile adjective vʌɪlvaɪl 1Extremely unpleasant. he has a vile temper vile smells Example sentencesExamples In the summer of 2002 he said the smell was sometimes so vile, his wife Maureen was unable to sleep. Howard didn't remember the stuff smelling quite so vile before, but then he never had it applied to his hide in quite such liberal quantities. After being orphaned, he's living with his dreadful aunt, uncle and cousin, all of whom are vile and nasty to Potter. Make war as vile and horrid as you can, he reasoned, and people will feel all the less inclined to resort to it. Harris was a Glaswegian Greek-Cypriot with a vile temper. Apart from bees, most insects seem to have little or no purpose in life, but everything about rats is evil, dirty and vile. The amount of dog mess on the pathway is absolutely vile and disgusting, in places it is totally unavoidable. I won't have such vile, offensive language on this show. Also, my lack of sense of taste and smell means that I can't truly appreciate just how vile the office coffee is. They are now demanding that the old sewers beneath the streets of the city be brought up to date in an attempt to rid the area of the vile smell. He also remembers a bottle of brown medicine that was so vile to smell that even his mother had to hold it at arm's length. I have never understood why little old ladies cover themselves and their houses in vile lavender smelling scents but I do now. He was sure I'd would say something vulgar, vile, or extremely arrogant; it was how I'd worked. It was, as you would expect, a pretty vile and unpleasant week. I know Rob has been going through a tough time lately, but his blog has become vile and nasty. Perfume that smells heavenly on your sister can smell vile on you. Seagulls really are disgusting, nasty, vile animals, naturally horrible, and made worse by hanging out with humans presumably. Get on plane, decline the vile coffee, and fly to next city. As Michael opened his mouth I smelt the vile stench of liquor on his breath. Well, scientists have created a smell that is so vile that it can make even the tough guys gag. Synonyms foul, nasty, unpleasant, bad, disagreeable, horrid, horrible, dreadful, abominable, atrocious, offensive, obnoxious, odious, unsavoury, repulsive, off-putting, repellent, revolting, repugnant, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, hateful, nauseating, sickening base, low, mean, wretched, disgraceful, appalling, shocking, ugly, vulgar, sorry, shabby, shameful, dishonourable, execrable, heinous, abhorrent, deplorable, monstrous, wicked, evil, dark, dirty, vicious, iniquitous, sinful, corrupt, sordid, depraved, perverted, debased, reprobate, degenerate, debauched, dissolute, contemptible, despicable, reprehensible, diabolical, diabolic, devilish, fiendish, hellish, damnable informal yucky, sick-making, gut-churning, icky, gross, God-awful, low-down, rotten, sick British informal beastly Northern Irish informal bogging North American informal lousy, vomitous vulgar slang shitty literary noisome archaic scurvy, disgustful, loathly rare egregious, flagitious 1.1 Morally bad; wicked. as vile a rogue as ever lived Example sentencesExamples After all, the thought of murdering Claudius, vile and hated though he was, still repelled Hamlet. I do not see how you gain by adding to his family's pain with your vile insults and cruel words. Although the vile black substance is poisonous to all moving and breathing things, it is very beneficial to plants. A top cricket coach has been jailed for 15 months after downloading vile pictures of children on his computer. Many regarded him as a saint, but he was an evil, vile, horrible man. Everything about the murder case has been vile. His character is so vile and cruel that he seems to have lost his soul somewhere in the jungles of Peru. It was used as a place where the pagan worshipers did all sorts of vile and wicked things - including burning children alive as sacrifices to the idols Moloch and Baal. Am I talking about that vile new scourge, black tar heroin? Your vile protest signs and offensive chants made sure of that. ‘The terrorists who are seeking to destroy the country have struck a cruel blow with this vile act today,’ he said. The pages blaze with a passionate desire to see justice for the people tortured and murdered by his vile regime. By this time, Dorian Grey had become totally corrupt, as vile and ugly as the figure in the portrait. In the end, you have killed a vile murderer who would otherwise have escaped justice, perhaps to kill again. At the heart of the story was a particularly vile villain. She pushed him over the edge, from simple gigolo to vile murderer. A poisonous racist, a supporter of eugenics, a proponent of mass murder, a vile imperialist and… an apologist for Fascism? If you were living under that kind of vile, murderous dictatorship, would you not want someone to come in and save you? This vile display shows a contempt for all the rules of warfare, and all the bounds of civilized behavior. These were vile acts of political murder, emerging from a political context created, in part, by Western statecraft and driven by political goals. Synonyms wicked, evil, iniquitous, heinous, villainous, diabolical, diabolic, fiendish, vicious, murderous, barbarous, cruel, black, dark, rotten, nefarious, foul, monstrous, shocking, outrageous, atrocious, abominable, reprehensible, despicable, execrable, corrupt, degenerate, reprobate, sordid, depraved, dissolute, bad, base, mean, low, dishonourable, dishonest, unscrupulous, unprincipled, underhand, roguish 1.2archaic Of little worth or value. all the feasts that thou hast shared erewhile, to mine shall be but vile Derivatives vilely adverb ˈvʌɪlliˈvaɪlli He felt that ‘they are more vilely oppressed than they have ever been before in their history.’ Example sentencesExamples Of course, there was always some-one who drank so much as to get vilely sick, but my point is that European teenagers have a much more relaxed, indifferent attitude towards alcohol than their counterparts in such countries as America. A friend loaned me a much-thumbed copy, vilely printed in Tangiers, and evidently smuggled in by a merchant sailor. And could he trust the word again of anyone who so vilely wronged him? Most vilely, he claims I was beset by an ‘explosive urge’ to blow up his house. England fans should be banned on aesthetic grounds, on the grounds of noise abatement, on the grounds of taste, on the grounds of racism, on the grounds of threatening behaviour, on the grounds of vilely invasive demeanour. vileness noun ˈvʌɪlnəsˈvaɪlnəs He was conscious of his ‘abominable vileness.’ Example sentencesExamples The vileness, shrillness and emptiness of the media, its playing on fear, its relentless and cynical manipulation of public opinion - all that is present. I hunt down and exterminate soul-less monsters of unimaginable horror and vileness. Women have been writing books about the vileness and tedium of domestic life for ever. Here, I seized what I thought was the opportunity to turn the subject away from catastrophe, horror, vileness and woe. Men who practice viciousness and vileness are shown no mercy by the gods. Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin vilis 'of low value'. Rhymes aisle, Argyle, awhile, beguile, bile, Carlisle, Carlyle, compile, De Stijl, ensile, file, guile, I'll, interfile, isle, Kabyle, kyle, lisle, Lyle, Mikhail, mile, Nile, pile, rank-and-file, resile, rile, Ryle, Sieg Heil, smile, spile, stile, style, tile, Weil, while, wile, worthwhile Definition of vile in US English: vile adjectivevaɪlvīl 1Extremely unpleasant. he has a vile temper vile smells Example sentencesExamples In the summer of 2002 he said the smell was sometimes so vile, his wife Maureen was unable to sleep. Also, my lack of sense of taste and smell means that I can't truly appreciate just how vile the office coffee is. Make war as vile and horrid as you can, he reasoned, and people will feel all the less inclined to resort to it. I know Rob has been going through a tough time lately, but his blog has become vile and nasty. He was sure I'd would say something vulgar, vile, or extremely arrogant; it was how I'd worked. Well, scientists have created a smell that is so vile that it can make even the tough guys gag. After being orphaned, he's living with his dreadful aunt, uncle and cousin, all of whom are vile and nasty to Potter. Howard didn't remember the stuff smelling quite so vile before, but then he never had it applied to his hide in quite such liberal quantities. I won't have such vile, offensive language on this show. Apart from bees, most insects seem to have little or no purpose in life, but everything about rats is evil, dirty and vile. I have never understood why little old ladies cover themselves and their houses in vile lavender smelling scents but I do now. Perfume that smells heavenly on your sister can smell vile on you. The amount of dog mess on the pathway is absolutely vile and disgusting, in places it is totally unavoidable. He also remembers a bottle of brown medicine that was so vile to smell that even his mother had to hold it at arm's length. Harris was a Glaswegian Greek-Cypriot with a vile temper. It was, as you would expect, a pretty vile and unpleasant week. As Michael opened his mouth I smelt the vile stench of liquor on his breath. Get on plane, decline the vile coffee, and fly to next city. They are now demanding that the old sewers beneath the streets of the city be brought up to date in an attempt to rid the area of the vile smell. Seagulls really are disgusting, nasty, vile animals, naturally horrible, and made worse by hanging out with humans presumably. Synonyms foul, nasty, unpleasant, bad, disagreeable, horrid, horrible, dreadful, abominable, atrocious, offensive, obnoxious, odious, unsavoury, repulsive, off-putting, repellent, revolting, repugnant, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, hateful, nauseating, sickening 1.1 Morally bad; wicked. as vile a rogue as ever lived Example sentencesExamples She pushed him over the edge, from simple gigolo to vile murderer. I do not see how you gain by adding to his family's pain with your vile insults and cruel words. A top cricket coach has been jailed for 15 months after downloading vile pictures of children on his computer. Although the vile black substance is poisonous to all moving and breathing things, it is very beneficial to plants. Everything about the murder case has been vile. These were vile acts of political murder, emerging from a political context created, in part, by Western statecraft and driven by political goals. Your vile protest signs and offensive chants made sure of that. Many regarded him as a saint, but he was an evil, vile, horrible man. By this time, Dorian Grey had become totally corrupt, as vile and ugly as the figure in the portrait. Am I talking about that vile new scourge, black tar heroin? ‘The terrorists who are seeking to destroy the country have struck a cruel blow with this vile act today,’ he said. After all, the thought of murdering Claudius, vile and hated though he was, still repelled Hamlet. It was used as a place where the pagan worshipers did all sorts of vile and wicked things - including burning children alive as sacrifices to the idols Moloch and Baal. If you were living under that kind of vile, murderous dictatorship, would you not want someone to come in and save you? A poisonous racist, a supporter of eugenics, a proponent of mass murder, a vile imperialist and… an apologist for Fascism? His character is so vile and cruel that he seems to have lost his soul somewhere in the jungles of Peru. In the end, you have killed a vile murderer who would otherwise have escaped justice, perhaps to kill again. The pages blaze with a passionate desire to see justice for the people tortured and murdered by his vile regime. At the heart of the story was a particularly vile villain. This vile display shows a contempt for all the rules of warfare, and all the bounds of civilized behavior. Synonyms wicked, evil, iniquitous, heinous, villainous, diabolical, diabolic, fiendish, vicious, murderous, barbarous, cruel, black, dark, rotten, nefarious, foul, monstrous, shocking, outrageous, atrocious, abominable, reprehensible, despicable, execrable, corrupt, degenerate, reprobate, sordid, depraved, dissolute, bad, base, mean, low, dishonourable, dishonest, unscrupulous, unprincipled, underhand, roguish 1.2archaic Of little worth or value. Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin vilis ‘of low value’.
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