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And while I like the idea of “replacing opposition with cooperation,” imagining that I’d vilify my kid turns me off.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

Then they start to actually vilify the regulations, and Frank Church becomes persona non grata, and all of a sudden it's like, "Wait, what? Didn't we learn something?"

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2024

"Instead of providing clarity or striking a conciliatory tone, we think labelling a multi-faceted problem as hateful extremism may instead vilify the wrong people and risk yet more division," they said.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024

“The city attempted to vilify Officer Garza when he spoke truth to power,” said Greg Smith, Garza’s attorney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2023

"Probably some kind of evidence they could use to vilify Tariq," Sloan says.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

But the organisation says, in reality, it "glorifies thinness and vilifies weight gain" and "promotes disordered eating behaviours."

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025

"The departure of Meghan and Harry from royal ranks has been far more damaging to the monarchy than the coverage that vilifies them understands or accepts," she told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2022

It drives competing narratives, ideas and values underground and vilifies all who do not speak in the national cant that replaces civil discourse and debate.

From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2022

The show, by contrast, is more blunt in its critique; it actively vilifies those who try to decide, unilaterally, how the world should pay for its sins.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2019

No, no, the madman shall not be believed Who in his own child vilifies himself.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

“I always felt that way and I was especially vilified for it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

By 1996, Richard Horton, then the editor of the Lancet, the British medical journal, could marvel: “He is now perhaps the most vilified scientist alive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026

Often, he is ridiculed, vilified and told he is no longer welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

But the woman that people came to know on-screen as the bow-wielding renegade Katniss Everdeen — and off-screen as a goofy straight-shooter — was vilified by the media, discredited for the crime of being herself.

From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025

“A money manager does not go from being a near nobody to being nearly universally applauded to being nearly universally vilified without some effect.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

“With goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways to do this, without vilifying and demonizing children.”

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025

They hope the results, instead of vilifying logging companies, can help spur a conversation about what forest managers can do better.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025

"And neither of us were interested in simply vilifying or demonising these people. Your job as an actor is to leave your judgement at the door."

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2024

We can have a discussion about spending without vilifying Republicans.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Though the rest of the world, including his own country, was vilifying Bobby for his outrageous positions and statements, the Icelanders felt sorry for him.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady