Usually means: Morally despicable, utterly repugnant behavior.
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  1. vile: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vile: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vile: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vile, vile: Wordnik
  7. vile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vile: Wiktionary
  9. vile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vile: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vile: Dictionary.com
  13. vile: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vile: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Vile (album), Vile (band), Vile (editor), Vile (film), Vile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vile: Rhymezone
  19. vile, vile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vile: Free Dictionary
  22. vile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vile: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. vile: Legal dictionary

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  1. vile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vile: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. VILE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vile: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Vile: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See vilely as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Morally low; base; despicable.
adjective:  Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.

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