# Miles Malpractice — Vile Bodies character guide

> Miles Malpractice in Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** The Hon. Miles Malpractice

**First appearance:** 0004-ii

## Snapshot

The Honourable Miles Malpractice, who touches up his eyelashes in hotel dining rooms and gets the whole party thrown out before luncheon.

## Who they are

Miles moves through the Bright Young People's world of motor races and country-house parties with an eyelash curler and no visible means of support. His talent is for the small, ruinous gesture — the cosmetic touch, the wrong trousers on Miss Runcible — that turns an outing into an eviction. He is the set's purest specimen: charming, feckless, and permanently on the verge of being asked to leave.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/i)

One of the Bright Young People, compares the ship's motion to a cocktail shaker.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/vii)

Moves to Shepheard's after Edward Throbbing's return to Hertford Street.

### [The Motor Race Trip](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/vile_bodies_se/chapters/x)

Touches up his eyelashes in a hotel dining-room, causing the group to be asked to leave; complains of hunger.

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