The word is a catch-all for every vile behavior humankind can muster.
They may grow in places difficult to approach, they may look unappetizing, or they may evolve vile smells.
As my own spirits declined, along with the pig's, the spirits of my vile old dachshund rose.
Yet the problem with cod liver oil remained its vile, nauseating, oily quality and taste.
And despite the preponderance of vileness, not all are vile.
All of us can feel and have felt this tug toward what is vile, and have yielded to it in varying degrees.
Her campaign was vile, unmitigatedly celebratory of every necessary evil and contemptuous of every unnecessary value.
Despite how vile some of it sounds it doesn't bug me, unless actual violence occurs.
It is happening and to simply walk away now would be a crime even more vile than going in in the first place.
They are vile creatures, he thought, with the character of kulaks.
British Dictionary definitions for vile
vile
/vaɪl/
adjective
1.
abominably wicked; shameful or evil: the vile development of slavery appalled them
2.
morally despicable; ignoble: vile accusations
3.
disgusting to the senses or emotions; foul: a vile smell, vile epithets
4.
tending to humiliate or degrade: only slaves would perform such vile tasks
5.
unpleasant or bad: vile weather
6.
paltry: a vile reward
Derived Forms
vilely, adverb vileness, noun
Word Origin
C13: from Old French vil, from Latin vīlis cheap
Word Origin and History for vile
adj.
early 13c. (implied in vilety), from Anglo-French and Old French vile, from Latin vilis "cheap, worthless, base, common," of unknown origin. Related: Vilely.