vileness
/'vailnis/
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Definition
- Noun:
- The quality of being extremely unpleasant or morally repulsive: "Vileness" refers to the state or characteristic of being wicked, depraved, or disgusting.
- The quality of being physically or emotionally offensive: It can also describe something that is revolting to the senses or feelings.
Examples of Usage
- Noun:
- The vileness of the crime shocked the entire community.
- I was appalled by the vileness of the insults he used.
- The vileness of the odor made it impossible to enter the room.
Advanced Usage
- "To sink to new depths of vileness": to behave in a way that is even more morally repugnant than before.
- The dictator's regime sank to new depths of vileness with its latest actions.
- "The sheer vileness of it": used to emphasize how utterly disgusting or wicked something is.
- The sheer vileness of the propaganda was designed to incite hatred.
Variants and Related Words
- Vile (adj): extremely unpleasant or morally bad.
- It was a vile act of betrayal.
- Vilify (verb): to speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner.
- He was vilified in the press for his controversial views.
Synonyms
- Wickedness: the quality of being evil or morally wrong.
- Depravity: moral corruption; wickedness.
- Loathsomeness: the quality of causing hatred or disgust; repulsiveness.
- Foulness: the state of being disgustingly dirty or unpleasant.
Antonyms
- Goodness: the quality of being morally good or virtuous.
- Decency: behavior that conforms to accepted standards of morality or respectability.
- Nobility: the quality of having high moral principles and ideals.
Related Idioms and Phrases
- "The vileness of the deed": a phrase used to emphasize the profoundly wicked nature of an action.
- History will remember the vileness of the deed.
- "Beyond vileness": so bad it exceeds normal understanding of wickedness.
- His cruelty was beyond vileness.
Noun
- the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
- the vileness of his language surprised us
- the quality of being wicked