vile – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of vile

Adjective: vile

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativeviler
Superlativevilest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore vile
Superlativemost vile

Sample Sentences

  • vile accusation
  • vile man
  • Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged. [1842 February 22, Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before the Springfield Washingtonian Temperance Society”, in Arthur Brooks Lapsley, editor, The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln:]
  • The parties stooped to vile and unbecoming meannesses; infinite briberies, forgeries, perjuries, and all manners of debauchings of the principles and manners of the electors were attempted. [1870, William Minto, “Daniel Defoe”, in Acme Library of Standard Biography:]
  • People crave human decency, warmth, and sincerity even in the vilest of circumstances… [2020 January 1, “Cultivating Myself Well and Helping People to Understand the Truth about Falun Dafa”, in Minghui:]
  • I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.
  • The medicine had a vile taste and smell.
  • We can't go out in this vile weather.
  • The sailors expected me to be sick, but I stood up to it like a seasoned salt, although the food was the vilest I have ever tasted, and that’s saying a lot. [1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 38:]
  • Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. [1949 June 8, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, Part I, Chapter I:]

Adjectives inflected like vile

serene, severe, secure, sedate, wheelie, simple, complete, fulsome, sprightlie, discrete, plosive, bizarre, brusque, brittle, wholesome, sincere, shystie, loveable, prophane, terrible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English vile, vyle, vyl, from Anglo-Norman ville, Old French vil, vile, from Latin vīlis. See: Latin Adjectives 'vīlis'.