revile

[ UK /ɹɪvˈa‍ɪl/ ]
[ US /ɹiˈvaɪɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. spread negative information about
    The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews
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How To Use revile In A Sentence

  • The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
  • Despite his major contribution to medical science, he died reviled, his name soon forgotten.
  • The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being so dim. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • There will be tribulation and people will revile you and slander you, but he has overcome and that we live for that.
  • The inclusion of wine stymied him for a long time, though later he reviled himself for being so dim. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • Hobbes is just one of many famous philosophers Berlin castigated in his lecture, but it is Hobbes's bleak and elemental philosophy that most conveniently sums up what Berlin and other moralists so revile. Was Democracy Just a Moment?
  • And those standing by said, Do you revile the high priest of God?
  • When injured, he immediately forgave, as he hoped to be forgiven, [1] and when reviled and persecuted, he never became 'persecutor'. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838
  • The world mistrusts us and reviles our president for this.
  • She was hugely reviled as a ‘prostitute’ and ‘unsex'd female’.
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