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# vile

«vile» in Mova's school dictionary: **very nasty, disgusting or bad** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (viler, vilest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Vile means very nasty, disgusting or bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vile/#m1)

2) (old use) Vile can mean of low worth or mean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vile/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a vile creature or a vile smell is one that the hero must fight or escape

### examples

- The vile smell came from the bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vile/#x1)
- The lion was angry with the vile gnat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vile/#x2)
- The thief was a vile man who stole from the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vile/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is a vile thing; it shall not be accepted.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.548/)
- [The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be noble.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.665/)
- [And I will cast detestable things upon thee, and make thee vile, and will make thee as dung.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/NAM.39/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.