vile
Other forms: vilest; viler
Surely only an evil person could be so vile as to have made you so angry. Vile is something or someone so morally wrong or offensive as to be thoroughly disgusting.
Are you appalled by someone’s sordid, despicable, ugly and just generally awful behavior? Then it’s probably vile, too. One of those dramatic adjectives with many synonyms, the word vile is not only used to describe a person or an action that is morally reprehensible; it can describe a smell that is so bad as to be practically morally reprehensible — or something else that offends your senses enough to make you nauseous. Those three month old dirty gym socks? They’re vile!
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morally reprehensible
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exceptionally bad or displeasing
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synonyms:
abominable, abysmal, atrocious, awful, dreadful, painful, terrible, unspeakable
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bad
having undesirable or negative qualities
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bad
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causing or able to cause nausea
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unwholesome
detrimental to physical or moral well-being
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unwholesome
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Eighth-grader Molly is fed up with her school's unfair dress code policy, so she starts a podcast to protest it, sparking a rebellion.
After twelve-year-old Jake accidentally eats ingestible information pills that he mistakes for jelly beans, he becomes the smartest kid in the world and must use his new brain power to help save his middle school from the evil vice principals' dastardly plot.
After hearing a story about women in her Scottish village being tried as witches during the 16th century, eleven-year-old Addie starts to draw parallels between history and her own present-day experiences of being bullied for autism.
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