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vile

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"Awful or morally bad"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /vaɪ(ə)l/Part of speech adjectiveSorted eilvStarts with VEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Extremely unpleasant, morally bad, or contemptible.

Word origin

From Middle English vile, vyle, vyl, from Anglo-Norman ville, Old French vil, vile, from Latin vīlis.

Used in a sentence

  • vile accusation
  • vile man
  • Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged.

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