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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

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

"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

“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

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

“If these narratives are left unchecked, we become a society that dismisses and vilifies those with expertise and experience relevant to the challenges we face,” the authors write.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2024

"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

He that contradicts acknowledged truth will always have an audience; he that vilifies established authority will always find abettors.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons by Samuel Johnson

He recalled in one piece how he was vilified by the press at the time for supporting a pro-LGBT council motion.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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

She had seen her mentor Howard Fuller vilified.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

“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

"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

“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

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