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vilely

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vile  (vl)
adj. vil·er, vil·est
1. Loathsome; disgusting: vile language.
2. Unpleasant or objectionable: vile weather. See Synonyms at offensive.
3.
a. Contemptibly low in worth or account; second-rate.
b. Of mean or low condition.
4. Miserably poor and degrading; wretched: a vile existence.
5. Morally depraved; ignoble or wicked: a vile conspiracy.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vlis, cheap, worthless; see wes-3 in Indo-European roots.]
vilely adv.
vileness n.
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Adv.1.vilely - in a vile manner; "his vilely spelt and illiterate letters"
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In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more blood-thirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
But it was the constant shadow of my presence, the closest propinquity of the man whom he had most vilely wronged, and who had grown to exist only by this perpetual poison of the direst revenge
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
After all, she was free (if she liked) to go back to the man who had so vilely deceived and deserted her.
The Two Destinies by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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