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a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse
they yelled insults at the visiting team
How To Use revilement In A Sentence
- During the years of feminist revilement, Hughes wrote and said little in public about his life with Plath.
- What's his next miscalculated step along the path to universal revilement and hatred?
- Yogh grabbed hold of a nearby pillar to steady himself, and found out - much to his revilement - that it was composed of skulls, both human and animal.
- It did not seem at all incongruous, either, that these people who watched him by with scorn and longing and utter revilement, these were the people that he would fight for.
- Cleon, the hero of the Peloponnesian war, advocated the public renouncement of friends upon dealing with public affairs -- he paid for it with some revilement by historians. Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Regulator Franchise, or the Alan Blinder Problem
- As copy editor, and as an acquaintance to many of the complainants, I have received several letters expressing individuals' revilement with the cavalier attitude presented toward women.