(v. t.) To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.
(v. t.) To stir up in feelings; to make angry; to vex.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, it soon became clear that if there was anything designed to get Tony really riled, it was talk of God.
(2) We are Protestant Christians, so by sending monks to chant sutras they were trying to get us riled up,” a member of one Zhejiang church told Radio Free Asia , a US-funded news website.
(3) Gui Minhai: the strange disappearance of a publisher who riled China's elite Read more Five Hong Kong booksellers – Gui Minhai, Lee Bo, Lui Bo, Cheung Ji-ping and Lam Wing-kei – who specialised in books criticising China’s Communist party elite have vanished since October.
(4) Francesco Totti has escaped with a spell on the naughty step for goading Lazio fans in the wake of Sunday's Rome derby, but has been fined €10,000 for each thumb he pointed down in a bid to rile them up.
(5) Golly; so riled is Abrams that he has committed a Hollywood solecism – you never tell anyone not to come.
(6) How Spurs craved someone similarly streetwise 7 Tottenham Hotspur Hugo Lloris Wrongfooted by deflections for both Chelsea goals, with the reality he did well to deny Cahill and Fàbregas scant consolation 6 Kyle Walker Eager to push on down the flank but exposed by Hazard’s slippery running and not tight enough to Costa at Chelsea’s second 5 Chelsea old guard triumph but Spurs academy talent point to future | David Hytner Read more Eric Dier Riled by Costa from the moment they clashed five minutes in.
(7) How it must rile politicians that, while only 18% of the public believe them to tell the truth , and just 34% of us believe business leaders, trade union officials are trusted by 41%.
(8) The benefits system is due for review again in 2013, with the prospect of another round of strikes if the government riles performers and technicians.
(9) George Osborne has riled his Liberal Democrat colleagues by trying to take the credit for the increase (so far) in the starting point for income tax from £6,475 to £10,000, a notably popular policy that has lifted about 2 million people out of income tax altogether.
(10) He made his points firmly, but was careful to avoid sounding riled.
(11) For socialists, taxation has a moral element and the suspicion the wealthy were “getting away with it” riled my father in a way it did not a pragmatic one-nation Tory like me.
(12) Instead, what often counts in politics is the spectacle of people being riled by this or that example of clumsy tinkering, particularly if any proposed change has some symbolic resonance.
(13) The couple's definition of success has riled some readers, revolving, as it does, around the bald data of income and education levels.
(14) But it never dared to, for fear that Hamdan's risqué music would rile Mubarak-era authorities.
(15) Varoufakis, the academic-turned-politician who has riled his eurozone counterparts, said he would not remain finance minister on Monday if Greece voted yes.
(16) But just try not to retaliate too aggressively or get too riled … Like I've said before: On the whole people are 'good', lets concentrate on that."
(17) Her presence at the parade – while an obvious indication of the political reconciliation she is attempting to achieve – is sure to rile supporters and critics, many of whom question her political integrity and increasing closeness with a group that quashed dissent for nearly 50 years and has been accused of committing genocide against ethnic Rohingya Muslims.
(18) Hayward, who riled Barack Obama by saying the amount of crude tipped into the Gulf of Mexico since the 20 April explosion was relatively "tiny" and that he "wanted his life back", even though 11 people died in the explosion, will be replaced by Bob Dudley , a BP veteran who is currently overseeing the clean-up of the oil spill.
(19) And she believes the distinctive paint job is a provocative gesture that has riled neighbours.
(20) Pellegrini, riled by Mourinho's dash across his box, hardly offered a vote of confidence in his later mumbled assessment.
Vile
Definition:
(superl.) Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
(superl.) Morally base or impure; depraved by sin; hateful; in the sight of God and men; sinful; wicked; bad.
Example Sentences:
(1) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
(2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
(3) Charlie Morris described the column as "vile and disgusting", adding that she hoped the writer "gets the sack".
(4) In China, where the Communist party has always determined which news is fit to print, authorities have ordered internet portals to abandon original reporting on political or social topics because of its “ extremely vile effect ”.
(5) The massacre was not committed by "the Poles" against "the Jews", but was a vile crime committed by specific individuals.
(6) Daryush 'Roosh V' Valizadeh cancels neo-masculinist meetings over safety Read more Roosh and company encountered such uniform hostility because their views are ostentatiously vile.
(7) Much porn is samey and some is utterly vile, full of torture, faeces, urine, vomit and blood and the utter degradation of women who become nothing but a series of orifices.
(8) Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed the results so far illustrated that the Conservatives’ “vile campaign” had backfired .
(9) This whole vile outpouring may just be par for the course in the wilds of social media.
(10) I did, though, have my suspicions that the perpetrator of this vile assault was Dolge Orlick, Joe's journeyman apprentice.
(11) The description “whorephobic” is usually reserved for feminists who speak or campaign against the liberalisation of the laws on sex work, who dream of a world where this huge, vile industry doesn’t exist.
(12) It is true in both cases that secrecy helps to protect some truly vile criminals, terrorists and paedophiles.
(13) It was not that he could not play good guys; rather that he excelled at locating the virtues in the apparently vile.
(14) Jowell said: "Harriet Harman would have nothing to do with the vile rubbish of an organisation like PIE," adding: "I don't want anyone to think this present frenzy about Harriet, the NCCL and the Daily Mail attack on her is in any way explained by that was then and this is now."
(15) Last year the country's most senior judge said only "extremely vile criminals" were executed in 2007 as a result of "kill fewer, kill carefully" reforms that gave the supreme court the right to overturn capital sentences handed down by lower courts.
(16) You need locking up.” Vardy posted a screenshot of the threats with the words “shocking and vile”.
(17) "That is why I believe George Osborne's calculated decision to use the shocking and vile crimes of Mick Philpott to advance a political argument is the cynical act of a desperate chancellor.
(18) Vile stuff – but the Nazi attitude to modern art may have been radically misunderstood.
(19) "They will not further any aim or objective by their vile and callous deeds.
(20) Vile returned to Philadelphia and enrolled at a community college.