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To: Redbob

Nope. Bile would have been fine also, but vile is a stronger way of expressing it, imo.


26 posted on 04/04/2007 6:17:22 AM PDT by NYC Republican (GOPs and Conservatives' Worst Nightmare - Myopic, Single-Issue Voters)
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To: NYC Republican; Redbob

“Vile” is an adjective, and has to modify a noun. It cannot be a noun itself, no matter how hard one tries to use it so.

In this context, the noun you want is indeed “bile.” If you must use the V, then the noun would be “vileness.”


101 posted on 04/04/2007 7:23:54 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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