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vile

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
vile/vʌɪl/

▶adjective

1 extremely unpleasant.

2 morally bad; wicked.

3 archaic of little worth or value.

– derivatives
vilely adverb,
vileness noun.

– origin ME: via OFr. from L. vilis ‘cheap, base’.

'vile' also found in these Oxford entries:

revile - vilify

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