BASE, LOW, VILE mean deserving of contempt because of the absence of higher values.

BASE stresses the ignoble and may suggest cruelty, treachery, greed, or grossness.

e.g. base motives

LOW may connote crafty cunning, vulgarity, or immorality and regularly implies an outraging of one's sense of decency or propriety.

e.g. refused to listen to such low talk

VILE, the strongest of these words, tends to suggest disgusting depravity or filth.

e.g. a vile remark

extremely unpleasant:

｟くだけて｠ ひどく不快な, むかつくような

e.g. he has a vile temper

e.g. vile smells.

morally bad; wicked:

｟かたく｠ 下劣な, 卑しむべき, 下品な; 邪悪な, 恥ずべき

e.g. as vile a rogue as ever lived.

archaic of little worth or value:

｟英･古｠ 貧弱な, 劣等の.

e.g. all the feasts that thou hast shared erewhile, to mine shall be but vile.

vilely |ˈvīllē| adverb

vileness |ˈvīlnəs| noun

Middle English: via Old French from Latin vilis ‘of low value’.