Crossword clues for vilified
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vilify \Vil"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vilified; p. pr. & vb. n. Vilifying.] [L. vilis vile + -fly; cf. L. vilificare to esteem of little value.]
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To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.]
When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite.
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To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.
--I. Taylor.Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind.
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To treat as vile; to despise. [Obs.]
I do vilify your censure.
--Beau. & Fl.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: vilify)
WordNet
v. spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews" [syn: revile, vituperate, rail]
[also: vilified]
See vilify
Usage examples of "vilified".
Those few who remain interested are vilified as `nerds' or `geeks' or `grinds'.
In the American press, he was generally vilified for his troubles, and in the 1950s the State Department cancelled his passport because he had been insufficiently anti-communist.
But then people had always been able to hold firmly to two contradictory ideas at the same time, as when once, in racing's past, Stewards, Press and public alike had vilified one brilliant trainer as "most crooked", and elected one great jockey as "most honest", blindly and incredibly ignoring that it was the self-same trusted jockey who for almost all of his career rode the brilliant trainer's horses.
He was tired of being vilified while at the same time badgered to be bountiful.