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Defamed the Italian rider, opposed fixing
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vilified
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: vilify )
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews" [syn: revile , vituperate , rail ] [also: vilified ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.] To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.] When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned ...
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.