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The Irishman defended then chairman Peter Lawwell and chief executive Michael Nicholson, claiming attempts to "dehumanise and vilify them are shameful".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

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

That the response to “West End Girl” was to immediately vilify Harbour and equate his purported sins to fireable offenses is troubling, but not surprising.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2025

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

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

"The series has perfect balance on many scores. It neither romanticises, nor vilifies rural life; it has very lively humour, but it's not flippant because it talks about a lot of very serious, pertinent issues."

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2023

"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

Nothing he so much detests as this government of the middle classes; nor is there any portion of society he vilifies more cordially than the bourgeoisie.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 by Various

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Sturgeon said she was still waiting for Murrell to offer an explanation for his crimes - crimes that she said have led to her being unfairly vilified, humiliated and placed under suspicion.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

Prices at such a level could lead the kingdom to be vilified and trigger a recession or consumer changes that crush demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 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

“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

Justin Welby and Stephen Cotterell said the government's response, to what Rishi Sunak has called a shocking rise in extremism, "risks vilifying the wrong people".

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024

We can have a discussion about spending without vilifying Republicans.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Adams read in the newspapers that Jefferson had compiled “a Magazine of slips of newspapers, and pamphlets, vilifying, calumniating and defaming you.”

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