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Vilification   /vˌɪləfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Vilification

noun
1.
Slanderous defamation.  Synonyms: malignment, smear.
2.
A rude expression intended to offend or hurt.  Synonyms: abuse, contumely, insult, revilement.  "They yelled insults at the visiting team"






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"Vilification" Quotes from Famous Books



... effort of self-control as he ever exercised in his life, Hiram managed to gulp back the sulphurous vilification he had ready at his tongue's end, and ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day

... knees before Durand, suffered the torrent of abuse meekly. He was a scoundrel, hired to do murder; and his vilification by an angered employer did not greatly trouble him, particularly since he understood ...
— The Port of Missing Men • Meredith Nicholson

... its indifference to the commonest principles of justice, but for a time his confidence had the appearance of being amply justified. The strike went its way, characterized by an infinity of petty outrages and a constant and consistent vilification of Peter Rathbawne, while—with the exception of that first and promptly quashed protest on the part of the press—no voice ...
— The Lieutenant-Governor • Guy Wetmore Carryl

... the general election included a campaign of vilification against Lloyd George which shook even some of the Conservatives. But the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the other hand, was not disturbed, and he did not hesitate to do a little vilification on ...
— Lloyd George - The Man and His Story • Frank Dilnot

... forth, must in his dust of the grave be published, and (such are the revolutions of the grave) be mingled with the dust of every highway and of every dunghill, and swallowed in every puddle and pond. This is the most inglorious and contemptible vilification, the most deadly and peremptory nullification of man, that we can consider. God seems to have carried the declaration of his power to a great height, when he sets the prophet Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones, and says, Son of man, can these bones live? as though it had been ...
— Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions - Together with Death's Duel • John Donne

... the Devil himself nearly white; and this estimate finally became a tradition, which the editors of illustrated religious papers and the writers of fraudulent "Death-Bed Scenes" did their best to perpetuate. In such hands the labor of posthumous vilification might have remained without greatly troubling those who feel an interest in Thomas Paine's honor through gratitude for his work. The lowest scavengers of literature, who purvey religious offal to the dregs of orthodoxy, were better employed thus than in a reverse way, since ...
— Arrows of Freethought • George W. Foote



Words linked to "Vilification" :   contumely, abuse, cut, obloquy, disrespect, hatchet job, insult, traducement, low blow, invective, vituperation, malignment, discourtesy, scurrility, vilify, defamation, calumniation, calumny, stinger, vitriol, billingsgate



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