What is "reviled"

Usage examples of "reviled".

Instead of being beaten and reviled, he was surrounded by varlets and attendants.

Such claims have been made about reviled groups by their detractors throughout European history, including the Cataline conspirators in Rome, the Passover `blood libel' against the Jews, and the Knights Templar as they were being dismantled in fourteenth-century France.

We can be born into an abusive family or a reviled ethnic group, or start out with some deformity.

The Shepherd Howling had reviled the planet and called it The Great Beast and said it was a man-eating monster, Coaxtl simply called it The Home, and Uncle Sean and Clodagh called it Petaybee, for the initials Pee, Tee, Bee which also stood for Powers That Be, the local name for Intergal, the Company which first settled the planet.

Maria took Oskar under her protection and reviled Matzerath for not taking care.

She grabbed hold of me, slapped the back of my head, and reviled my poor mama for having brought a brat like me into the world.

As he stood on the soft, intricately knotted wool carpets, surrounded by priceless objects, costly furniture, and bowing Mandrians, Dain could not help but think of himself less than a year past, when he was just a starving, vagrant, homeless eld roaming the Dark Forest, reviled by any Mandrian whose path he crossed.

I’ll see to it that you yourself are accused of some crime that you’ll hate, and I’ll get you convicted and sent to prison, and you’ll go down, I promise you, dishonoured and reviled, with maximum publicity and disgrace.

Erna Pokriefke, her legs firmly planted in our kitchen, reviled him in an amplified voice, calling him a no-good dumbhead.

As a result, she was reviled and ridiculed in much the same manner as Senjin.

Yet he could not admit to himself that this inner pain drove him to seek out someone who was very much like himself: reviled, scorned, a beautiful outsider.