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VILELY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does vilely mean?
• VILELY (adverb)
The adverb VILELY has 1 sense:
1. in a vile manner
Familiarity information: VILELY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a vile manner
Context example:
his vilely spelt and illiterate letters
Pertainym:
vile (morally reprehensible)
Context examples
Never in all his life had he been so vilely treated, and never in all his life had he been so angry.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He treated me vilely, cursed me continually, and heaped his own work upon me.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"The place smells so vilely," said the latter as we came in.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It did indeed smell vilely—like the old chapel at Carfax—and with our previous experience it was plain to us that the Count had been using the place pretty freely.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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