vile
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"This is extremely important to the PM and he has personally intervened to ensure everything possible is being done so that vile groomers are dealt with in the way their victims deserve."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
"The country and the world witnessed what happened at Jantar Mantar. Some mischievous youngsters hurled vile abuses," Modi, 75, said in a video posted on Instagram late Friday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026
A new breeze baptized us in another vile stink.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The owner’s vile crankery doesn’t prevail among New York coffee-shop proprietors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
From fifty feet below, a vile stench hits my nose, like rotted corpses in the summer heat.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson.
From Time Magazine Archive
Life calls for adjectives that mean better than best, viler than vile, cooler than cool.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best of them I know by heart, As for the rest they make me tired; The viler part May well be fired.
From In the Track of the Bookworm by Irving Browne
But Basiliscus was, if possible, viler than Zeno, and after twenty months Zeno was brought back.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
This is not to say that he practised the vile art of adaptation or the viler art of paraphrase, or in any way filched from the mighty epic of Roncesvalles.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Lewis Spence
Sit in front of a screen and suffer an endless stream of the vilest videos the internet can offer, approving or denying each clip’s right to stay on a given platform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
Since then, she's consistently been treated in inexcusably appalling ways, having her privacy violated and the vilest of commentary directed at her.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2025
Generations of Americans have held firm to a version of free speech that makes room for even the vilest of views.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
They invite our scorn, which is not to say they are immune to our pity: Even the vilest character turns out to be in the grip of a deeply misguided longing for transcendence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2020
His voice is agitated, it sounds almost dignified as he says: “I tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war.”
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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