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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

vilified = spread negative information about

you really vilify me
Dumas, 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

(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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