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vile adjective [ vʌɪl ]

• extremely unpleasant.
• "he has a vile temper"
Similar: 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, yucky, sick-making, gut-churning, icky, gross, godawful, low-down, rotten, sick, beastly, bogging, lousy, vomitous, noisome, scurvy, disgustful, loathly, egregious, flagitious, shitty,
Opposite: pleasant,
Origin: Middle English: via Old French from Latin vilis ‘of low value’.


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