[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

vile \vile\ vimacl, a. comp. viler vimacl"~er;
   superl. vilest. oe. vil, f. vil, from l. vilis cheap,
   worthless, vile, base.
   1913 webster
   1. low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
      1913 webster

            a poor man in vile raiment.           --james ii. 2.
      1913 webster

            the craft either of fishing, which was peter's, or
            of making tents, which was paul's, were was more
            vile than the science of physic.      --ridley.
      1913 webster

            the inhabitants account gold but as a vile thing.
                                                  --abp. abbot.
      1913 webster

   2. morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful in the
      sight of god and men; sinful; wicked; bad. "such vile base
      practices." --shak.
      1913 webster

            behold, i am vile; what shall i answer thee ? --job
                                                  xl. 4.
      1913 webster

   syn: see base.
        1913 webster -- vile"ly, adv. -- vile"ness, n.
        1913 webster
see also:
viler vilest base vile"ly vile"ness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

vile
     adj 1: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as
            murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of
            slavery appalled them" syn: despicable, ugly, unworthy
     2: thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy or foul or nasty or vile
        weather we're having" syn: filthy, foul, nasty
     3: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell";
        "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" syn: nauseating,
         nauseous, noisome, loathsome, offensive, sickening
see also:
despicable ugly unworthy filthy foul nasty 
nauseating nauseous noisome loathsome offensive 
sickening 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

288 moby thesaurus words for "vile":
   fescennine, rabelaisian, abhorrent, abject, abominable, abusive,
   amoral, arrant, atrocious, awful, bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base,
   base-minded, bawdy, beastly, beggarly, below contempt,
   beneath contempt, black, blackguardly, blamable, blameworthy,
   blasphemous, blue, brackish, brutal, calumniatory, calumnious,
   cheap, cheesy, cloying, coarse, comminatory, common, contemptible,
   contumelious, corrupt, corrupted, crappy, criminal, crude, crummy,
   cursing, damnable, damnatory, dark, debased, debauched, degenerate,
   degraded, degrading, denunciatory, deplorable, depraved,
   despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgraceful, disgusting,
   dreadful, dysphemistic, egregious, enormous, epithetic, evil,
   excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrable, execratory, fecal,
   feculent, fetid, fiendish, filthy, flagitious, flagrant, flyblown,
   forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frowsty,
   frowy, frowzy, fulminatory, fulsome, funky, fusty, gamy, gaudy,
   gimcracky, gloppy, grave, graveolent, grievous, gross, gunky,
   hateful, heinous, hellish, high, horrible, horrid, icky, ignoble,
   ignominious, ill-smelling, immoral, imprecatory, improper, impure,
   infamous, iniquitous, ithyphallic, knavish, lamentable, lewd,
   little, loathsome, lousy, low, low-down, low-minded, lumpen, lurid,
   maggoty, maledictory, malodorous, mangy, mawkish, mean, measly,
   mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed, mildewy,
   miserable, moldy, monstrous, mucky, musty, nasty, naughty,
   nauseant, nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome,
   notorious, noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, odious,
   odorous, offensive, olid, ordurous, outrageous, overripe, paltry,
   pathetic, peccant, perverted, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poisonous,
   poky, poor, pornographic, profane, puky, putrid, rancid, rank,
   rascally, raunchy, raw, reasty, reasy, rebarbative, recreant,
   reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible,
   reprobate, reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, ribald,
   risque, roguish, rotten, rubbishy, sad, salacious, scabby,
   scampish, scandalous, scatologic, schlock, scoundrelly, scrubby,
   scruffy, scummy, scurfy, scurrile, scurrilous, scurvy, scuzzy,
   servile, shabby, shameful, shameless, shitty, shocking, shoddy,
   sickening, sinful, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy,
   small, smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking-room, smutty, sordid,
   sorry, spoiled, sposhy, squalid, stenchy, stinking, strong, stuffy,
   sulfurous, sultry, terrible, too bad, trashy, trumpery,
   two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
   ugly, unchaste, unclean, unforgivable, unmentionable, unpardonable,
   unprintable, unrepeatable, unspeakable, unworthy, valueless,
   vicious, villainous, vituperative, vomity, vulgar, weevily, wicked,
   woeful, wormy, worst, worthless, wretched, wrong, yecchy, yucky

[4] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

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