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   Vile

   /vīl/

   

   adjective

   • 1. extremely unpleasant: "he has a vile temper"
   • ▪ morally bad; wicked: "as vile a rogue as ever lived"
   • ▪ of little worth or value: "all the feasts that thou hast shared erewhile, to mine shall be but vile"

   Word Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin vilis ‘of low value’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. vilely adverb
   • 2. vileness noun

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • V

     4

   • I

     1

   • L

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   • E

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