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31vile — {{hw}}{{vile}}{{/hw}}A agg. 1 (lett.) Che costa e vale poco: merce vile | A vil prezzo, a prezzo bassissimo. 2 (est., lett.) Misero, meschino | Avere, tenere a –v, non essere stimato. 3 (est., fig.) Basso, spregevole: sentimenti vili; il vile… …
32vile — [[t]va͟ɪl[/t]] viler, vilest ADJ GRADED If you say that someone or something is vile, you mean that they are very unpleasant. The weather was consistently vile... She was in too vile a mood to work. Syn: foul …
33vile — adjective 1 informal very unpleasant or nasty: This soup is vile. | She has a vile temper. 2 evil: a vile slander vilely adverb vileness noun (U) …
34vile — /vaɪl / (say vuyl) adjective (viler, vilest) 1. wretchedly bad: vile weather. 2. highly offensive, obnoxious, or objectionable. 3. repulsive or disgusting, as to the senses or feelings; despicably or revoltingly bad. 4. morally base, depraved, or …
35vile — adjective a vile smell his vile crimes Syn: foul, nasty, unpleasant, bad, disagreeable, horrid, horrible, dreadful, abominable, atrocious, offensive, obnoxious, odious, unsavory, repulsive, disgusting, distas …
36vile — adj. 1 disgusting. 2 morally base; depraved, shameful. 3 colloq. abominably bad (vile weather). 4 archaic worthless. Derivatives: vilely adv. vileness n. Etymology: ME f. OF vil vile f. L vilis cheap, base …
37Vile — This interesting and unusual surname, recorded in the spellings of Fill, Fille, Pfeil, Fiel, and Fyall, is from the late 12th Century. It has three distinct possible origins all French. Firstly, the derivation may be from the Anglo Norman French… …
38vile — adj. Vile is used with these nouns: ↑creature, ↑slander, ↑smell …
39vile — [13] The ancestral meaning of vile is ‘of low status, quality, or price, cheap, common’; its use as a general epithet of ‘horribleness’ is a secondary development. It comes via Old French vil from Latin vīlis, a word of uncertain origin. The same …
40vile — adj. RG. 435, 506; comp. ‘vylloker’ == viler. 2500 B. v. a. == make vile. part. ‘yviled.’ RG. 435 …
