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to criticize in an abusive manner

She abuses and reviles him.

People used to admire her, but today she is reviled.
She hates violence and reviles anyone who fights.
Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

revile = criticize in an abusive manner

No, no. We revile Anastasia.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars

revile = criticize in an abusive manner

And, with the same fervor with which they once sang His praises, Men now reviled Him.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Why, although reviled by others, could this beauty not be taken for granted within the community?
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
Haven't the ignorant, narrow-minded curs reviled me as an enemy of the people?
Henrik Ibsen -- An Enemy of the People
And yet he felt that, however he might revile and mock her image, his anger was also a form of homage.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Baron darted his gaze left and right, reviled himself for coming here without his own guards, not that they'd be much use against Sardaukar.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
I will say, I think it passing odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.
George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
The seconds were ticked off in milliseconds of premeditated violence, at once accepted and reviled.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
I cannot do the thing myself, for my traditions forbid a dying warrior to revile his persecutors, but the gifts of a Red-skin are different.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
MARGARET (returning home) How scornfully I once reviled, When some poor maiden was beguiled!
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
To whom The gracious Judge without revile replied.
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
But he didn't start out by condemning or reviling.
Stephen Vincent Benét -- The Devil and Daniel Webster
And did not she herself revile me there?
William Shakespeare -- The Comedy of Errors
They were the ones, Arjuna in particular, who had publicly reviled him for being a lowly charioteer's son.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
I am reviled or threatened every day by one man or another,' said Ralph; 'but things roll on just the same, and I don't grow poorer either.'
Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby
You sowed strife abroad, you reviled The King to the King of France, to the Pope, Raising up against him false opinions.
T.S. Eliot -- Murder in the Cathedral

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