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Definition of Vile

Vile

Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.

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

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Vile Quotations

For I can raise no money by vile means.
William Shakespeare

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
Plato

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
Albert Camus

The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
Benito Mussolini

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.
John Calvin

If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Elbert Hubbard

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
Isaac Barrow

When you're in that scene, you really wonder if this is all you're ever going to be. You know how vile and filthy you are inside.
Willie Aames

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
David Brainerd

I think the actions of the president are, in my opinion, the most vile and hateful words ever spoken by a sitting president. I am stunned and I'm horrified.
Rosie O'Donnell

I believe that Clinton is the most wicked and vile President that this nation has ever had.
Randall Terry

The Children's Safety Act will help protect children from the perpetrators of these vile crimes by strengthening notification requirements for sex offenders and increasing criminal penalties.
James T. Walsh

The welfare system in the United States is vile.
Daniel Keys Moran

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian.
Richard Griffiths

The art schools... you get young kids doing the most vile and meaningless crap. I think they believe every bit of it.
Leonard Baskin

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
Baroness Orczy

I know whenever it comes to be really dysfunctional and vile and base and hostile on screen, I'm good at that!
Werner Herzog

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.
Caroline Nichols Churchill

The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch.
Emma Lazarus

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
David Mallet

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.
Shakti Gawain

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
John Dennis

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Vile Translations

vile in Dutch is laaghartig, laag, gemeen, infaam
vile in German is wertlos, gemein
vile in Italian is infame
vile in Spanish is terrero

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