What's the difference between vile and vive?

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.

Vive


Definition:

  • () Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.
  • (a.) Lively; animated; forcible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Henry Barnes Vive la guillotine Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly.
  • (2) Back in the real-ish world, Everest VR (PC & HTC Vive) isn’t a game but a virtual reality recreation of a climb up Mount Everest, an undertaking that few are strong, determined or deranged enough to tackle in real life.
  • (3) Así que, si vives en el DF o a las afueras, queremos que te involucres y compartas tus puntos de vista con nosotros – hay muchas maneras de hacerlo ... • Para estar al tanto con nuestros videos, artículos, galerías y eventos en vivo, mantén un ojo atento a la página Guadrian Cities todos los días del Lunes 9 al Viernes 13 de Noviembre.
  • (4) "Vive David Cronenberg, Vive Julianne Moore and Vive La France" Vive all that lot.
  • (5) As it’s powered by the PS4 you’d expect a big compromise in terms of performance compared to the Rift and Vive, but some very clever thinking from Sony has meant this isn’t necessarily the case.” It will be the quality of the first VR games and applications that will decide whether the technology succeeds.
  • (6) Si vives o trabajas en la ciudad de México, c omparte tus historias, reflexiones y fotografías con GuardianWitness y los publicaremos en la sección de Guardian Cities .
  • (7) Part of Canada’s centenary celebrations, Expo 67 was a point of pride for a city that was alive with newness – a new metro system, new downtown skyscrapers and a burgeoning Québécois nationalist movement (it was on a visit to Expo that Charles de Gaulle made his famous “ Vive le Québec libre!
  • (8) As soon as the news was announced, supporters gathered at the city's main square, Plaza Bolivar, and began chanting: "Chávez vive, la lucha sigue" – "Chávez lives, the battle continues."
  • (9) • Si te es más fácil por correo electrónico puedes hacerlo directamente en mexicocity.week@theguardian.com Si vives en la Ciudad de México y tienes una historia o experiencia que compartir, queremos saber de ti – puedes participar a través de cualquier medio ya mencionado, contribuir a nuestro proyecto GuardianWitness sobre cómo está cambiando la ciudad, o envíame un correo directamente a mike.herd@theguardian.com .
  • (10) Finally, arriving at Mexico's Vive Latino festival, "the doctors … said 'No no no no, you cannot.'"
  • (11) A simple and inexpensive method to obtain substantially platelet-free and erythrocyte-free lymphocyte preparations from human peripheral blood has been established, using a modification of the technique published by Vives et al.
  • (12) Lévy told employees he wanted to “reiterate the group’s no-tolerance policy towards behaviour or commentary counter to the spirit of Publicis Groupe and its celebration of difference as captured in the motto vive la différence”.
  • (13) But someone else reconnected a microphone, and thus was the French leader able to shout: "Vive Montreal, Vive le Quebec.
  • (14) Last year Cameron met the Dalai Lama , which in China's terms has about the same level of subtlety as Xi Jinping meeting Alex Salmond to "wish him well" in his campaign for Scottish independence or de Gaulle's notorious 1967 "Vive le Québec libre" speech .

Words possibly related to "vile"