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spread negative information about- The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews.
- Vampyres have speculated for centuries that the ecstasy of blood drinking is the key reason humans have vilified our race.P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
- you really vilify meDumas, Alexandre -- Twenty Years After
- Let us not vilify, but raise it to that standard.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
- "You had best guard that tongue, ser." Ser Barristan did not like this Gerris Drinkwater, nor would he allow him to vilify Daenerys.George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
- Must we accept the novel that is full of racial hatred, that vilifies persons of African or Asian or Jewish ancestry?Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- Vilify me, strike me, be malicious!Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Stoker vilified vampyres, which has caused our kind endless petty troubles with humans?'P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked
- I've been vilified for my choice, forced into hiding, banished from Idris.Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
- Every hireling scribbler was set to vilify them, wrote Abigail, who in her time in London acquired a dislike of the press that would last a lifetime.David McCullough -- John Adams
- She had been married to a Tutsi who had been killed years ago, and she had been vilified as a traitor by radicals on her hill.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- He didn't care what was politically correct and had little patience for urban environmentalists who vilified the cattle industry.Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
- Even you, who are a man, cannot say what you think without being misunderstood and vilified—yes: I admit it: I have had to vilify you.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- His biographer believes that "probably no man in history has been more vilified than he was at this time."John F. Kennedy -- Profiles in Courage
- Let us not vilify but raise it to that standard.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Selected Essays
- At the very least, the town would be vilified, a soiled mark on the map where few would want to settle or do business.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- The New York sports press, with just a couple of interesting exceptions, vilified the Giants' offensive line.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- He continued to shake his head happily as Pilar went on vilifying and Robert Jordan knew that it was all right again now.Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Thus, the Party rejects and vilifies every principle for which the Socialist movement originally stood, and it chooses to do this in the name of Socialism.George Orwell -- 1984
- However, it's my job to protect our government from false vilification, unfounded accusations that could severely damage the country.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
vilified = spread negative information about
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
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