vilely
/ˈvʌɪlli/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈvʌɪlli/
vilely
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final y vowel sound
vi - le - ly -> vilely
Myanmar meaning
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- ‘The amount of dog mess on the pathway is absolutely vile and disgusting, in places it is totally unavoidable.’
- ‘Perfume that smells heavenly on your sister can smell vile on you.’
- ‘As Michael opened his mouth I smelt the vile stench of liquor on his breath.’
- ‘Harris was a Glaswegian Greek-Cypriot with a vile temper.’
- ‘Get on plane, decline the vile coffee, and fly to next city.’
- ‘Howard didn't remember the stuff smelling quite so vile before, but then he never had it applied to his hide in quite such liberal quantities.’
- ‘He also remembers a bottle of brown medicine that was so vile to smell that even his mother had to hold it at arm's length.’
- ‘He was sure I'd would say something vulgar, vile, or extremely arrogant; it was how I'd worked.’
- ‘It was, as you would expect, a pretty vile and unpleasant week.’
- ‘Apart from bees, most insects seem to have little or no purpose in life, but everything about rats is evil, dirty and vile.’
- ‘In the summer of 2002 he said the smell was sometimes so vile, his wife Maureen was unable to sleep.’
- ‘After being orphaned, he's living with his dreadful aunt, uncle and cousin, all of whom are vile and nasty to Potter.’
- ‘Make war as vile and horrid as you can, he reasoned, and people will feel all the less inclined to resort to it.’
- ‘I have never understood why little old ladies cover themselves and their houses in vile lavender smelling scents but I do now.’
- ‘Well, scientists have created a smell that is so vile that it can make even the tough guys gag.’
- ‘I won't have such vile, offensive language on this show.’
- ‘Seagulls really are disgusting, nasty, vile animals, naturally horrible, and made worse by hanging out with humans presumably.’
- ‘Also, my lack of sense of taste and smell means that I can't truly appreciate just how vile the office coffee is.’
- ‘They are now demanding that the old sewers beneath the streets of the city be brought up to date in an attempt to rid the area of the vile smell.’
- ‘I know Rob has been going through a tough time lately, but his blog has become vile and nasty.’
Synonyms
evil, despicable, contemptible, depraved, base, degraded, low, wicked, abominable, loathsome, foul, abandoned, abhorrent, abject, appalling, awful, bad, beastly, brutish, coarse, corrupt, debased, degenerate, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting, dreadful, ferine, filthy, hateful, horrible, horrid, humiliating, ignoble, immoral, impure, iniquitous, mean, miserable, nasty, nauseating, nefarious, noxious, offensive, perverted, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shameful, shocking, sickening, sinful, sleazy, stinking, swinish, terrible, ugly, unpleasant, vicious, vulgar, worthless, wretched
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