His vilely spelt and illiterate letters. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
'vilely' (as they call it), three-fourths of the number have been more sinned against than sinning. From Wordnik.com. [Charles O'Malley — Volume 2] Reference
For you would smell vilely of mint if he kissed you. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Honest and pious folk ye cannot be who act so vilely. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
You, that agreed to be kind, now vilely the treaty dishonour. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
“The place smells so vilely,” said the latter as we came in. From Wordnik.com. [Dracula] Reference
I am a person, though thus vilely betrayed, of rank and fortune. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Why kneelest thou to the wretch whom thou hast so vilely humbled?. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
It was exceptionally long and shapeless, and was most vilely shod. From Wordnik.com. [Stage Confidences] Reference
There is nothing new in the heavier parts, which smell vilely of Blue. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892] Reference
But meanness must ever be the portion of the man, who can act vilely!. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Corellius's colors were purple and maroon, and they suited him vilely. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
I was tricked, most vilely tricked back, as you shall hear in its place. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
He felt so vilely sick all day that he got drunk again during the evening. From Wordnik.com. [Dancing with Clara]
I take "usesless" back -- even with perfect hair he is vilely incompetent. From Wordnik.com. [Obama On Today's Job Loss Announcement: This Crisis Gives Us Big Opportunity] Reference
'She prayed a lot when we were on board ship, but that was when she was vilely seasick. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
If we do not want to be a great power any longer, we deliberately and vilely betray ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
Truthful men will tell you that London is vilely supplied with cabs in comparison with Melbourne. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
The fugitive found himself in a narrow ill-smelling, vilely paved alley to the east of the Borough. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Che himself was vilely assassinated, without respect for his status as a prisoner wounded in combat. From Wordnik.com. [26 JULY ANNIVERSARY] Reference
Teutonic flavour -- they were so scientifically nourishing in theory and so vilely inedible in practice. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
The king and his friends had vilely commended her for her "patriotism" in finding an heir to the throne. From Wordnik.com. [One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks'] Reference
He signed off one letter back in September of 1918, ` Your ever-devoted, though vilely neglected, pig. '. From Wordnik.com. [Winston & Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills] Reference
Every body has heard that you have been vilely treated by a man who, to treat you ill, must be the vilest of men. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
Across a vilely dirty room was stretched a cord upon which were hung to dry, huge and manifold strips of salt meat. From Wordnik.com. [Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule An account of a journey made on mule back in Honduras, C.A. in August, 1891] Reference
And yet, this past weekend, everyone keened and wailed and tore their hair when Clinton so vilely said the same thing!. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Gets Endorsement Of Newspaper Editorial Board That Heard R.F.K. Assassination Remarks] Reference
Because we already know what they would do with the nation's symbols; they would vilely hand them over to our enemies. From Wordnik.com. [Castro Speech at ANPP Closing Session] Reference
In any case civilisation has made mankind if not more bloodthirsty, at least more vilely, more loathsomely bloodthirsty. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from Underground] Reference
Clothes torn and in disorder, the person vilely exposed, roughly I was dragged over to this barred and retired apartment. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
All this idle talk, so common since the war, of a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight" is the merest twaddle and vilely untrue. From Wordnik.com. [History of Kershaw's Brigade] Reference
I have cause to chide you; my toilette must be changed -- you have dressed me vilely -- here! remove these knots -- I hate their fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
'By the sad sea waves,' which he did vilely, and he wound up his performance by a most unexpected and misplaced embellishment, or 'turn.'. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Dickens and Music] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.