Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a vile manner; basely; meanly; shamefully; abjectly; opprobriously; odiously; badly; wretchedly; worthlessly; sorrily.

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  • adverb In a vile manner, evilly, despicably.

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  • adverb in a vile manner

Etymologies

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vile +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The judge said Stevenson, from Coast Road, Ballygally, who had lived in the flat opposite the pensioner in Moveen House on Benmore Drive in Finaghy, had not only brutally assaulted his vulnerable neighbour, but had also "vilely" sexually abused her.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2008

  • 'vilely' (as they call it), three-fourths of the number have been more sinned against than sinning.

    Charles O'Malley — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839

  • “I must serve as famed bigwig and decoy-bird … I am doing whatever I can for my tribal brethren, who are being treated so vilely everywhere.”

    How Einstein Divided America's Jews 2009

  • The greater number of them are vilely housed, do not have enough fuel to keep them warm, and are insufficiently clothed.

    THE MANAGEMENT 2010

  • At first I was vilely treated, beaten by the women and children, clothed in vermin-infested mangy furs, and fed on refuse.

    CHAPTER 12 2010

  • He treated me vilely, cursed me continually, and heaped his own work upon me.

    Chapter 9 2010

  • The place smelled vilely, and the sombre gloom, and the mumble of voices from out of the obscurity, made it seem more like some anteroom to the infernal regions.

    THE SPIKE 2010

  • One day they waxed mutinous, and being vilely cursed by Jacques Baptiste, turned, as worms sometimes will.

    In a Far Country 2010

  • For the US conservative it is also inextricable from the abhorrence through which any “overly” strong woman is judged as a moral transgressor, in a vilely reactionary misogyny.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Jim broke off to swear vilely and solemnly, concluding with, "Those damn oyster-eggs worth all that money!"

    JUST MEAT 2010

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