Example sentences for: vile

How can you use “vile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Why do we consider the Oklahoma bombing especially vile because it killed children?

  • One deems it more of the same old riffing on the underside of society, "calling up as many vile impressions of humanity as possible" (Liesl Schillinger, the Washington Post ), while the other detects a new maturity in Self and labels this "his most disciplined storytelling yet," marked by "a new control and polish (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Everyone concedes that his writing is masterful; it's just a question of whether he has progressed.

  • Thus, The Man Show , produced by a good guy (and I know him, he's a nice fellow) is OK, but if, say, Donald Trump had produced it, it would be vile.

  • Waugh's 1930s novels, such as Vile Bodies and Black Mischief , are wicked fun in the strict sense.

  • ,” “Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa: Murder, Madrigals, and Masochism,” and “The Iconography of Fanny Hill : How to Illustrate a Dirty Book”), but they are not pornographic; others are somewhat more clinical (“Johnson and Boswell: `Vile Melancholy' and `The Hypochondriack”); all exhibit a quality of writing rarely encountered.


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