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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

“Equally, we shouldn’t feel it’s OK to vilify everyone who advocates for the Palestinian people as supporting Hamas,” Kornbluth said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

And on Wednesday Hayes added that the language used to "vilify" James online was "unacceptable".

From BBC ● Dec. 13, 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

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

If the mainstream vilifies aliens and outsiders as beasts or monsters, the extremes heroize beasts and monsters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2018

While on the subject of his writings, we will mention the book in which he vouchsafed to praise those whom he now so elaborately vilifies.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 by Various

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

Greg Norman was vilified for serving as the face of LIV Golf.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

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

Her own experience in the workplace left her feeling "vilified and punished severely" when symptoms affected her cognition, pain levels or emotions.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025

She had seen her mentor Howard Fuller vilified.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

No more cutting carbs, no more vilifying sugar.

From Salon ● May 6, 2025

Asked to comment about the senators’ letter, McLaughlin said, “The vilifying of our law enforcement must stop.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 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

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