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Meanings of vile in English
Causing or able to cause nausea.
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Examples for "offensive"
Examples for "offensive"
1
Since Israel's Gaza offensive 18 months ago, cross-border violence has largely abated.
2
Bryant had an offensive way of dismissing what he called 'ordinary crime'.
3
What is particularly offensive is the way the government has announced this.
4
What's more, there are serious legal consequences for using this offensive term.
5
The next criticism is a related one: the great 'straw man' offensive.
1
Almost 10 years ago a story emerged detailing a particularly sickening crime.
2
She earlier called the attack a sickening act that targeted young people.
3
With sickening dread he searched in the corners; he found them: A.
4
The heavens tell me so; the curling leaves whisper the sickening message.
5
And in one sickening second, Storm knew exactly what had done it.
1
The whole place seemed to him hideous and loathsome in the extreme.
2
The oysters had a terrible look in their eyes and were loathsome.
3
The day brought forth another loathsome fact in connection with the case.
4
That we're in debt, owe hundreds of pounds, the whole loathsome truth.
5
So alone that anyone, anything no matter how loathsome would be welcome.
1
Some people appreciate the bitter olive; others feel it to be nauseous.
2
I was suffocating and needed air; I was nauseous, light-headed almost disorientated.
3
Just looking at the bacon left on the platter made me nauseous.
4
A day without it and we start to feel dizzy and nauseous.
5
And she was suffocating with the nauseous sweetness of the bridal flowers.
1
The radiation produced by the adjacent power core made Shaz feel queasy.
2
Overdo them, however, and they can leave you feeling bloated and queasy.
3
The idea of hacking our way through that jungle made me queasy.
4
It took me months before I could taste sugar without feeling queasy.
5
He walked outside to study them, the sight making him feel queasy.
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What remained was a broken record of apocalyptic events and nauseating violence.
2
For a brief nauseating moment he thought he was going to faint.
3
The stench was crisply nauseating, with a cold torpor of lukewarm sea.
4
Just the idea of trying to explain it to him was nauseating.
5
Check out the obsession with mirrors and the often nauseating camera angles.
1
I destroyed the noisome thing and cast it into the waste-paper basket.
2
The heat was intolerably oppressive, and the air tainted with noisome exhalations.
3
This was now a noisome muddy carpet some two inches in thickness.
4
The galley was a rackety, noisome trading-ship that plied along the coast.
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Overspread with bones and hair, it was noisome with worms and insects.
Usage of vile in English
1
We condemn vile personal smears of this nature, the Liberal Party said.
2
He said: This is scaremongering in its most extreme and vile form.
3
Recordings also captured Mr Somyurek using vile language against colleagues and staff.
4
They encountered vile weather and tempest-tossed seas off the South American coast.
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Perhaps the vilest of the vile once were ministers of the Gospel.
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No one would ever want to remember they thought things that vile.
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She was vile; aye, but not in my sight till too late.
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The countryman sees nothing but the vile and sordid side of it.
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I have lived among vile people; and I am vile like them.
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A Lib Dem spokesman said: Cyril Smith's acts were vile and repugnant.
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I abhor myself; a toad is not so vile as I am.
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And this mischief was the vile jealousy betwixt red and yellow uniform.
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And all the time I am the victim of a vile conspiracy-
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I was like the serpent in Eden, though without his vile intentions.
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It was a vile pseudo sentiment-theoffspring or the forerunner of evil.
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Edmund Rigby heard the vile rapturous imploring chorus of the souls beginning.
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