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.
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vb. (present participle of vilify English)
Usage examples of "vilifying".
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.
The most vicious assaults, however, were aimed at Hamilton, whom Freneau delighted in vilifying, and to add to the insults, such diatribes were nearly always accompanied by lavish praise for Jefferson.
Besides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be his judge, calling you an ungodly villain, with many other such like vilifying terms, with which he hath bespattered most of the gentry of our town.
Might they be following an agenda of their own for a socialist, totalitarian America, initiated by vilifying white males and turning them into submissive wimps incapable of putting up a fight?
Then the communists set about vilifying God, and His son, Jesus Christ.
These people disgusted him and, as if he saw in their heinous behaviour a personal affront to his unshakeable faith in the system, he was quick to hold news conferences vilifying them.