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revile
verb as in scold
Example Sentences
Critics revile them for inflating housing costs, upending neighborhoods and contributing to the forces pushing locals and Native Hawaiians to leave Hawaii for less expensive states.
Gershman predicted Trump will be made to pay the "paltry fine" the judge is likely to impose and then "continue to revile the system and revel in his notoriety."
Published this month by the University of Georgia Press, Thurmond’s book makes a case that Oglethorpe evolved to revile slavery and, unlike most white Europeans of his time, saw the humanity in enslaved Africans.
Sitting in a living room with martyr posters of Abu Mohammad’s relatives who were killed while fighting together with the Palestinian security forces they both now revile, Abu Mohammad and Abu Hamzeh — the two men’s noms de guerre — complained at length about how the Palestinian Authority’s economic policies had plunged people into debt and poverty, forcing them to rely on handouts rather than fight the occupation.
Her life of looking closely at those we would rather revile or ignore has earned her attention in return.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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