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/vˈaɪlnəs/
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NOUN
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the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
the vileness of his language surprised us - the quality of being wicked
How To Use vileness In A Sentence
- Another aspect which holds large appeal for the child is the vileness of the stepmother and stepsisters.
- Sure enough, as Jesus taught, when I answered vileness with kindness the stranger did part from my coopery as my friend instead of my enemy, and with a wiser eye about the workings of the Lord among men. Alvin Journeyman
- 'In the meane space,' he continues, 'for the avoyding of idlenesse (the very mother and nourice of all vices) I have among other my travayles bene occupied aboute thys little Treatyse, wherein is sette forth the vilenesse and basenesse of worldely things whiche commonly withdrawe us from heavenly and spirituall matters.' A Biography of Edmund Spenser
- the vileness of his language surprised us
- I assure you that they are studded with feculent tidbits of loathsome vileness, mostly in the form of links to websites explaining how Obama is exactly the same as Hitler and why it's important to defend white culture. 9/11 Truth and the Paranoid Style - Boing Boing
- Ignoring the conglomeration of anticipative vileness, Ehomba reached slowly over his back. Into the Thinking Kingdoms
- Children of the gutter and sexless haunters of the street corner elbowed comfortable artisans and their wives; there were bareheaded hoidens from the obscurest courts, and work-girls whose self-respect was proof against all the squalor and vileness hourly surrounding them. Thyrza
- After watching five minutes of the two ghastliest people in modern Britain going head to head - IMHO, the porkily smirking Piers Morgan is the only living being who can come close to la Price for sheer vileness - I admitted defeat and turned over. Archive 2009-07-01
- The body of Lucrece was brought into the market place, where the people wondred at the vilenesse of that facte, euery man complayning vppon the mischiefe of that facinorous rape, committed by Tarquinius. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
- Perhaps it had been necessary for his survival that his mind should generalize the vileness which had wrecked his life. THE ONLY GAME