Both Uses
vilify
in
Fast Food Nation
(Auto-generated)
- He didn't care what was politically correct and had little patience for urban environmentalists who vilified the cattle industry.†
p. 134.1 *
- The powerful magnates of the Beef Trust responded by vilifying Roosevelt and Upton Sinclair, dismissing their accusations, and launching a public relations campaign to persuade the American people that nothing was wrong.†
p. 205.2
Definitions:
-
(1)
(vilify) spread negative information about
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)