How to Use vilify in a Sentence

vilify

verb
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  • He was vilified in the press for his comments.
  • The boys, all between the ages of 14 and 16 at the time of their arrests, were vilified by the press.
    — Candice Benbow, Glamour, 30 May 2019
  • At the same time, no man was more vilified and scoffed at.
    — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 2 July 2019
  • He was vilified, he was called all sorts of names, soft and all sorts of things.
    — Nathaniel Cline, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
  • The Italian media dug up her work and spun it to vilify her.
    — Amanda Knox, Marie Claire, 6 Feb. 2018
  • For decades, fat has been vilified as the worst part of the American diet.
    — Time, Time, 29 Sep. 2017
  • He was vilified in South Africa in 2010 for preventing a goal with his hands.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
  • When LeBron makes that pass the guy misses it, he gets vilified.
    — John Canzano, OregonLive.com, 18 Mar. 2018
  • Yet, while some of his deputies were vilified, Rosselló seemed to emerge unscathed.
    — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
  • In fact, for your own and others’ health, please break anything close to a habit of vilifying this or that food or food choice.
    — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Hip-hop, along with the black and brown people who created it, has been vilified since its birth.
    — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 16 Apr. 2018
  • By the same token, anyone unmasked as less than a moral paragon will be vilified.
    — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • That means the political class has to back the police, not vilify them.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Feb. 2022
  • Netanyahu has been heckled by reservists and vilified in the press.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The Russian leader, for his part, has gone out of his way to vilify those who have left, likening them to gnat-like insects.
    — Vasiliy Kolotilov, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
  • But that movie, starring Michael Keaton as a former superhero star, vilified the genre as a scourge for art.
    — Jake Coyle, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The burpee is one of the most vilified exercises out there (if not the most), and honestly, there are good reasons.
    — Amy Marturana, SELF, 19 May 2019
  • The musical, while meant to appeal to crabby commuters of all stripes, is not meant to vilify the T or its workers.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
  • There's been a lot of interest recently in retelling the stories of women who were vilified by the press.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2019
  • He has been vilified by many Patriots fans in the wake of the Deflategate scandal.
    — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 18 Jan. 2018
  • She was vilified by the right and abandoned by Hollywood.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
  • Women are often vilified and condemned for the deaths of their male partners.
    — Lisawhill, Longreads, 9 July 2019
  • Cohen and Trump had not seen each other in person since that plea, and in the years since the former friends have often sought to vilify each other.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Given the results of the recent election, in which government was often vilified, this may be a strange time to say this.
    — Daniel Bliss, Slate Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
  • Question: Rose is vilified for drinking and cursing just like men do.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Christ reduced to a potato chip, debased and vilified like two thousand years ago.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • But now Monahan would undertake a covert mission to meet the man his team had vilified.
    — Kate Kelly, New York Times, 10 June 2023
  • The president will vilify any firms that lay off workers.
    — The Economist, 25 Dec. 2019
  • That vilified a large number of people who were here legally in the community of Springfield.
    — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • But having left government in 2022, Doctor Fauci, who was both lionized and vilified as the nation’s spokesperson during the Covid crisis, is free to speak in his own voice about his personal experiences.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 July 2024

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