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But amid the ruins near the turquoise waters of the Caribbean coast, the effort is colliding with ordinary Venezuelans who revile their government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Her life of looking closely at those we would rather revile or ignore has earned her attention in return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely,

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2023

“I’ve gone from being just a journalist to becoming some sort of symbol for people who either love me and my work or revile me and my work,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

Oh, a wife may revile such a man with every silent curse she knows.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, a fellow New York Republican who reviles Santos, introduced a bill this year aimed at foreclosing just that possibility.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2023

Rather, he is a man who has been so deformed and twisted by a society that reviles him that he can only stand up tall when he has been cast out of it.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022

To his credit, Wolff is astute and a little shamefaced when analysing the complicity between Trump and the journalists whom he officially reviles.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2020

“When the film finds a global audience, it might feel very real if you live in a community that reviles love that doesn’t occur between two heterosexuals,” Mantello says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2020

"He has no coin and the only knight who follows him reviles him as less than a snake. The Dothraki make mock of his weakness. He will never take us home."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Philips is one of India's best-known - and most polarising - doctors online: admired by supporters as a fearless champion of evidence-based medicine, reviled by critics as an attention-seeking provocateur.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Take Halle Berry, one of the more famous examples of the post-Oscar slump, winning best actress in 2001 for “Monster’s Ball” before starring in the critically reviled bomb that was 2004’s standalone “Catwoman” film.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026

But the MEK was long considered a terrorist group by Washington and enjoys little support inside Iran, where it is reviled for allying with Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the devastating 1980-88 war.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

As Iranian protests grow in size, an unlikely figure is gaining prominence—the son of the country’s reviled shah, who was toppled in the 1979 revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026

I leave us with the country roused against us, and our liberator and commander reviled.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

While the original XFL made a show of reviling the stodgy NFL, this iteration embraces its status as an aspirant upstart.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2020

Which is to say that he can never escape that St. Louis comic or that reviling mother or Aunt Fritzi or “Haim Afen Range” or, for that matter, Joel Katz.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2016

“We mustn’t be afraid of people reviling us, mustn’t be afraid of them saying we have a bad reputation, mustn’t be afraid of international reaction,” Mr. Li quoted Mr. Deng as saying on April 25.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2014

Their purpose in reviling Grass as a Nazi and anti-Semite is precisely to silence anyone who might even consider following his lead.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2012

Again she saw the other bully flinching before his steel, cursing, reviling and hiccoughing by turns, and Hawkesworth silent, inexorable, pressing on him.

From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John