VILE in a Sentence

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For VILE, below is one of 40 sentences:
Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of London Bridge.

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 Meanings and Examples of VILE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
vile
 a.  worthless; mean; despicable; depraved by sin; hateful
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  "I think you are vile and mercenary," said Scarlett, but her remark was automatic.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  So Rhett consorted with that vile Watling creature and gave her money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  Things in Atlanta were in a dreadful pass, she said, due to the vile doings of the Republicans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  "The world is too vile," she murmured, averting herself from Mrs. Fisher's anxious scrutiny.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
5  Beside this man in blue flannel shirt, baggy khaki trousers, uneven suspenders, and vile felt hat, she was small and exquisite.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  I wa'n't going to flinch from my bounden duty and let her think that decent folks had to stand for her vile talk.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
7  The refuse had stained the water to vile colors of waste: thin red, sour yellow, streaky brown.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  He added, that he shuddered at the thought of being buried in his hammock, according to the usual sea-custom, tossed like something vile to the death-devouring sharks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
9  A vile wind that has no doubt blown ere this through prison corridors and cells, and wards of hospitals, and ventilated them, and now comes blowing hither as innocent as fleeces.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
10  The fear and despair they had felt a moment earlier were drowned in their rage against this vile, contemptible act.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
11  Those vile sea-breezes are the ruin of beauty and health.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
12  It was answered by another Jew: younger than Fagin, but nearly as vile and repulsive in appearance.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting specimen of the London slavey.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
14  Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east of London Bridge.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
15  I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Example Sentence:
1  The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
2  This accusationof bribery is a vile smear on an honourable citizen.
3  This vile policy of ethnic cleansing must be stopped.
4  This accusation of bribery is a vile smear on an honorable citizen.
5  In Gulliver's Travels, Swift portrays an image of humanity as vile, degraded beasts; for this reason, various critics consider him a misanthrope.