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That led Judge Perry to retort: “You are significantly undercutting your mea culpa here by standing behind the charges and continuing to vilify these particular defendants.”

From Slate ● May 22, 2026

Despite testing positive, another reader scolded, I “continue to vilify vaccine skeptics generally, and … Kennedy specifically. Truly fascinating.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2025

She smiles often and laughs easily, a very American trait that helped vilify her in European eyes during her trial.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025

“Ricky Cobb was a productive citizen of this community, and we will not let you vilify him,” family attorney Bakari Sellers said at a news conference.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

Ser Barristan did not like this Gerris Drinkwater, nor would he allow him to vilify Daenerys.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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

He who vilifies those who are in power is sure of an audience, you know.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

Knox told the Telegraph newspaper, external last week: "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."

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

She had seen her mentor Howard Fuller vilified.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

In recent years in the US, content vilifying hormonal contraception has spread rapidly on social media.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026

“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

We can have a discussion about spending without vilifying Republicans.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

“The thing I’m really trying to avoid is, like, people are vilifying creators and actors, and pointing fingers.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2023

In other words, Burr’s allegation that Hamilton had made a practice of vilifying him for many years was essentially correct.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis