vilified
Example Sentences
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"I don't joke about Meredith's death. I joke a lot about how I was vilified, but I don't joke about her murder," she had told the Telegraph newspaper, external.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Although North Korea has relentlessly suppressed religion and vilified American missionaries, the origins of this hereditary cult are found in a surprising place: Protestant Christianity, and in particular, postbellum American Presbyterianism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
My whole life, they had been vilified by my mom’s side of the family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 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
“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
