durance vile
A long prison sentence.
In durance vile here must I wake and weep
adj
Morally low; base; despicable.
vile accusation
vile man
Causing physical or mental repulsion; horrid.
I glimpsed a vile squid-like creature in the depths.
vile taste
noun
That which is vile; vileness.
“I had seen those two work before—in the smoking-room the day prior to their attack on you, if I recollect it correctly, and so, knowing their methods, I am convinced that their enmity is a sufficient guarantee of the integrity of its object. Men such as they must cleave only to the vile, hating all that is noblest and best.”