vile

"If you did indeed make these vile and defamatory statements, stand behind them," he said in a new post on X. "If you did not make them, deny it."

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

While both these instances are unbecoming, the latter is far more vile.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

She came to me after that scene, and she goes, “Sonny, in all my years in this business, that is the most vile, disgusting thing I’ve ever had to do.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

That is a prospect some Iranians who supported the war, seeing it as a way to remove what they consider a vile regime, may be hoping for.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Life calls for adjectives that mean better than best, viler than vile, cooler than cool.

From Time Magazine Archive

Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson.

From Time Magazine Archive

You are hot from an inn full of the viler type of cyclist, and I presume that, after their custom, they mocked at your machinery.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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 Spence, Lewis

‘I’d been looking at it ever since I came in, and ’twas viler even than I judged it at first.

From Rewards and Fairies by Kipling, Rudyard

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

Those who wield hate for personal ambition are among the vilest of human beings.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2024

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

He opened a glass jar, and they were all assaulted with the vilest scent they had ever smelled.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste