vile

adj

1. Morally low; base; despicable.

   “vile accusation”

   “vile man”

   “Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged.”

   “The parties stooped to vile and unbecoming meannesses; infinite briberies, forgeries, perjuries, and all manners of debauchings of the principles and manners of the electors were attempted.”

   “People crave human decency, warmth, and sincerity even in the vilest of circumstances…”

2. Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.

   “I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.”

   “The medicine had a vile taste and smell.”

   “We can't go out in this vile weather.”

   “Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him.”

noun

1. (uncountable)That which is vile; vileness.

   ““I had seen those two work before—in the smoking-room the day prior to their attack on you, if I recollect it correctly, and so, knowing their methods, I am convinced that their enmity is a sufficient guarantee of the integrity of its object. Men such as they must cleave only to the vile, hating all that is noblest and best.””