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"vile" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often despicable (10 letters).
Definitions
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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Awful or morally bad”4 letters
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