Word: vilely
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Those who are led (by its jacket's encomiums) to expect another South Wind or even a Vile Bodies are in for a disagreeable disappointment. This portrait of an old rapscallion is satire too cold to be amusing; it is written with the analytic distaste of one who watches without pity the dwindling of a pathologically older generation...
Butcher Boy & Vile Business...
...theme is "Protect sweet little mountain lions" and "Only man is vile." Children and dumb adults are supposed to rejoice when the lion mutilates a human and causes his death...
...Communist shot a Communist, they were put off by this resolution of the Moscow Party bureau: "The abominable cunning agents of the class enemies, the coward scum of the former Zinoviev anti-Party group, have torn Comrade Kirov from our ranks. We will stamp out every one of the vile counter-revolutionary followers of the anti-Party...
...five sombre days in January, 1778. Scene I is a bunk house at Valley Forge. A squad of Virginians, starved, half-naked scarecrows with rags on their feet and bits of coonskin on their heads, have been issued their evening meal. It is so crawling vile the wretches spew it out. A pair of long-hunters are about ready to go home when General Washington and his staff stride by, looking for men with whole shoes to go on a foraging expedition...