What is "vilify"

Usage examples of "vilify".

In private Hart had little good to say about the way Sally vilified Sam for his alleged fickleness, but in public she refrained from speaking against Tsung herself.

This writer, speaking the latent though unavowed ideals of an evil generation of public men, was rewarded by being openly vilified and secretly studied.

But in his exuberant speeches he missed no opportunity to vilify Schuschnigg or to peddle the by now shopworn lies about how the Anschluss was achieved.

The Viceroy then made some final interpolations to vilify the Incas, which would not have been approved by some of those who had attested, certainly not by Polo de Ondegardo or Leguisano.

Andrei Zhdanov, and his work was vilified and for the most part banned until his rehabilitation in 1956.

Try to realize you are over-simplifying, dehumanizing, and vilifying others, possibly to rationalize your own hostility and maybe as a coverup of your own self-hatred.

Malfoy had already been visited in the hospital wing by Pansy Parkinson, who had lost no time in vilifying Harry far and wide, and Snape had told the staff precisely what had happened.

Although antimatter technology had staggering potential as an efficient and nonpolluting energy source—if unveiled prematurely, antimatter ran the risk of being vilified by the politics and PR fiascoes that had killed nuclear and solar power.

Although antimatter technology had staggering potential as an efficient and nonpolluting energy source-if unveiled prematurely, antimatter ran the risk of being vilified by the politics and PR fiascoes that had killed nuclear and solar power.

Bushnell said Senator Bob Dole's support for the flag-burning amendment had compromised his "decency as an individual" - proving that it's still okay to vilify a disabled American combat veteran who actually did sustain his injuries on the field of battle.

Of course, the newspapers of the land lived up to the reactionary policy of the ruling class, and the destroyed socialist press was misrepresented and vilified, while the Black Hundreds were represented as true patriots and saviours of society.

As witness the wilderness of coda, addenda, and subscripts the report had accumulated, meant to vilify House Tregesser, whose main crime was that it refused to be gobbled by the bureaucratic machine.

Almost no one liked the Vitae, but even the Unifiers, who vilified them, could not ignore them.

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.