What does vile mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretchedadjective

    morally reprehensible

    "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"

  2. nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vileadjective

    causing or able to cause nausea

    "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"

Wiktionary

  1. vileadjective

    morally low; base; despicable

  2. Etymology: From vilis

ChatGPT

  1. vile

    Vile generally refers to something extremely unpleasant, morally despicable, or of low value or quality. It is often used to describe detestable actions, attitudes, or behaviors.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Vile

    low; base; worthless; mean; despicable

  2. Vile

    morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad

Wikidata

  1. vile

    vile is a text editor that attempts to combine the best aspects of the popular Emacs and vi editors. These editors are traditionally located on opposing sides of the editor wars, as users of Emacs and vi tend to have strong sentiments against the editor they do not use; however, vile at least attempts to reconcile these positions. vile is an acronym which stands for "VI Like Emacs". vile is featured in Chapter 12 of the O'Reilly book "Learning the vi Editor". The program is also known as xvile for the X Window System, and as winvile for Microsoft Windows. vile was created and originally maintained by Paul Fox. In 1996, maintenance was taken over by Thomas Dickey, who had provided many major contributions to the codebase over the preceding years.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Vile

    vīl, adj. worthless: mean: morally impure: wicked: (B.) poor, cheap.—adv. Vile′ly.—n. Vile′ness.—ns. Vilificā′tion, act of vilifying: defamatory speech: abuse; Vil′ifīer.—v.t. Vil′ify, to make vile: to attempt to degrade by slander: to defame:—pa.t. and pa.p. vil′ifīed.v.t. Vil′ipend, to slander, vilify.—v.i. to use vilification. [Fr.,—L. vilis.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. vile

    1. Anything that serves; whatever is useful. 2. Something done or thought by some one else.

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  2. VILE

    What does VILE stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the VILE acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. VILE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Vile is ranked #51176 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Vile surname appeared 407 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Vile.

    93.1% or 379 total occurrences were White.
    5.4% or 22 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Anagrams for vile »

  1. evil

  2. Levi

  3. live

  4. veil

  5. vlei

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vile in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vile in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of vile in a Sentence

  1. Bennie Thompson:

    This Facebook group is beyond sexist and racist -- This Facebook group is truly abhorrent and shameful, and there is no excuse for this depraved behavior, the agents found to be responsible for these vile comments should no longer have the privilege of representing the United States of America in uniform.

  2. Senator Dicky Durbin:

    Senator Dicky Durbin insistsTrump made the vile and racistcomments, telling reporters over the weekend.

  3. Nick LaLota:

    Antisemitism in any form is vile, unacceptable, and I condemn it in the strongest way possible. New York students should be learning and tested on real history, not ideological revisions. I urge Governor Hochul and Commissioner Rosa to act in the best interest of our students, it defies comprehension how such a blatant antisemitic question passed through the layers of approval process in our state’s education system, but unfortunately, it’s a reflection of the far-left anti-Israel ideology that is permeating our government.

  4. New York:

    I am appalled and disgusted by the Swastikas and other anti-Semitic symbols of hate that were scrawled in a Queens schoolyard, in New York, we have zero tolerance for such vile acts of anti-Semitism.

  5. Donald Trump:

    We are privileged to be joined tonight by a courageous leader who left the Democrat Party because he has had enough of their extremism, enough of their socialism, enough of their vile hoaxes and scams, this year, this very year is a flashpoint election.

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