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vileness

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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.vilenessvileness - the quality of being wicked          
evilness, evil - the quality of being morally wrong in principle or practice; "attempts to explain the origin of evil in the world"
filthiness - moral corruption or pollution; "this deformity and filthiness of sin"
enormity - the quality of extreme wickedness
2.vilenessvileness - the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions; "the vileness of his language surprised us"
odiousness, offensiveness, distastefulness - the quality of being offensive
Translations
vileness [ˈvaɪlnɪs] N [of person, behaviour, action] → vileza f
vileness
nAbscheulichkeit f; (of thoughts)Niederträchtigkeit f; (of smell)Widerwärtigkeit f; (of language)Unflätigkeit f; (of weather)Scheußlichkeit f; the vileness of his moodseine Übellaunigkeit


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Several of Ibsen's plays were on the repertory for the winter; Sudermann's Die Ehre was then a new play, and on its production in the quiet university town caused the greatest excitement; it was extravagantly praised and bitterly attacked; other dramatists followed with plays written under the modern influence, and Philip witnessed a series of works in which the vileness of mankind was displayed before him.
Wilson laid his hand on the shoulder of a pale young man beside him -- "I have sought, I say, to persuade this godly youth, that he should deal with you, here in the face of Heaven, and before these wise and upright rulers, and in hearing of all the people, as touching the vileness and blackness of your sin.
he wondered, puzzled by the effort to reconcile his instinctive disgust at human vileness with his equally instinctive pity for human frailty.
 
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