vilely
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪli
Adverb
vilely (comparative more vilely, superlative most vilely)
- In a vile manner, evilly, despicably.
- 2022 February 24, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine Special: Putin's Russia launches full-scale invasion, Channel 4 News, 4:58 from the start:
- We broke off diplomatic relations with Russia
Ukraine is defending itself and will not give up its freedom, no matter what Moscow thinks[...]
Russia vilely and suicidally attacked our state in the morning
Just like fascist Germany did during the Second World War
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- Terribly, awfully.
- 1913, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:
- The chauffeur must, as it seemed to me, have been a novice or else have lost his nerve in this disturbance, for he drove vilely on the way to the station.
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