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vile

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1. vile - Adjective

3. vile - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.

Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Cruelty ever proceeds from a vile mind, and often from a cowardly heart. Ludovico Ariosto

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children. John Ruskin

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. William Shakespeare

Vile let him be who deems himself vile. Portuguese Proverb

There is naught so vile as a fickle tongue. Norse Proverb

Poverty is not vile. Portuguese Proverb

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