How to Use vile in a Sentence

vile

adjective
  • What is that vile odor?
  • She has a vile temper.
  • His comments were positively vile.
  • That’s the way a state can be two ways at once — pretty and vile.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 17 June 2020
  • His motives seemed as vile as his actions.
    — Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The vile and ugly words were spelled out in full when sent to Gersh.
    — Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner, CNN, 10 July 2017
  • Their vile chants are surely loud enough to be heard from 25 feet away.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Truly vile stuff from HelloFresh.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2026
  • Some of the abuse on here this evening has been absolutely vile.
    — SI.com, 27 May 2018
  • Trump is doing vile and odd things on a daily, if not hourly basis.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Since when does Fox care about vile words being heard on its airwaves?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Mixed in with her vile attacks were short and desperate pleas for help.
    — Matthew Cooper, Newsweek, 2 Apr. 2015
  • That man is a vile, destructive force in the country and in the world.
    — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Sep. 2022
  • To speak the word that Leonard spoke when streaming his on-line video-game play was vile.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The speaker’s vile remarks were cheered by others in the group.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
  • Among the most vile were promises to rape her with military-grade weapons.
    — Denene Millner, Glamour, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Everybody was supposed to let go, let all the vile stuff come up and gush out.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
  • You guys should just read some of the vile comments hurled at me on a daily basis.
    — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 4 Feb. 2021
  • The floating smells of her cooking were vile, stews that smacked of potions.
    — Cynthia Ozick, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • Some of it's been vile and violent, some of it has led to threats on those of us on the right.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
  • The meaty ones, though, were another story — in a word, vile.
    — Emily Heil, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Her father infects her with ideas that are vile even by the standards of that time and place.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • And now a vile and pointless newspaper has gotten wind of it.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Denver Post, 26 Apr. 2017
  • The fairy tale of the poor happily making music in their shanties is a vile myth.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The plot centers around a small-town beauty pageant and the great, vile lengths people will go to win.
    — Patricia Garcia, Vogue, 28 Apr. 2021
  • This vile Muslim-baiting film should never have seen the light of day.
    — Cnaan Liphshiz, sun-sentinel.com, 23 July 2019
  • From the other side, vile insults have been flung at gay people and anyone on the left.
    — Calvin Woodward, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The father even heard the husband shouting vile insults at his son.
    — Rebecca White, New York Daily News, 4 Aug. 2025
  • There is the vile replacement theory rhetoric of the right wing.
    — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2021
  • This story is set in a gruesome, violent, vile world.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 9 Feb. 2026

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