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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a vile act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that is morally reprehensible or extremely unpleasant.
Example: "The community was outraged by the news of a vile act committed in their neighborhood."
Alternatives: "an abhorrent deed" or "a despicable action."
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She was taken from us in an act of hatred, in a vile act that has killed her.
Corbyn said: "She was taken from us in an act of hatred, in a vile act that has killed her.
Today, the chief of the defense staff, Diabakate Soumahila, condemned the incident on Monday as "a vile act".
The Labour leader said: "She was taken from us in an act of hatred, in a vile act that has killed her.
From the outset, the Louima case represented a particularly dogged effort by prosecutors to enlist police officers against a vile act of official misconduct.
Hasanuddin AF, the head of the MUI's fatwa commission, said: "Sodomy, homosexuals, gays and lesbians in Islamic law are forbidden and [it] is a vile act that is punishable by the death penalty".
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It was an uncharacteristically vile act performed by a man almost universally held in the highest of regard and one for which he later apologised.
Rob Weissman, president of the advocacy group Public Citizen, described the move to me as "a heartless and vile act". Be that as it may, Pat McGinnis, executive director of California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said the proposed regulatory step backward is hardly a surprise.
"I called this town hall because as the first African American female president, I am appalled; as a student second, I am outraged; as a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, I am nauseated; and as a target, I am numb by the vile act that a member of our community decided to take during a historic moment for our campus," Dumpson said Thursday.
This vile act offended not only a free and sovereign country, but his own voters as well.
And then he agreed to do Last Tango In Paris (1972) for Bernardo Bertolucci - the last dissolute, shabby, vile act of the former angel, a role that mined his own past (because he let it), that depended on his own great fascination with sex and its power, as well as his tormented feelings towards women.
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