What are some opposite words for vilify?
Antonyms for vilify
ˈvɪl əˌfaɪvil·i·fy
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vilify
Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.
Antonyms:
applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicateSynonyms:
abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, violate, vituperate, wrong
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vilifyverb
Synonyms:
malign, revile, vituperate, traduce, calumniate
How to use vilify in a sentence?
Sometimes when Philwaukee Calvert take something and Philwaukee Calvert vilify it, it gets bigger and better.
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton:
We cannot, must not vilify police officers. Remember what those officers were doing when they died. They were protecting a peaceful march.
One of the things that was hidden was the secret that United States was breaking the Japanese diplomatic code and keeping that secret saved countless lives during the war... but after that, there is no worthy reason for continuing to vilify two honorable men and to allow them to shoulder the responsibility of the death of so many young men. It is an injustice that should be righted. the fact that there have only been two big catastrophes -- one was Pearl Harbor... and the other was 9/11. They are both the same kind of stature and horror in the American memory.
It’s disgusting and appalling that right-wing outlets giddily help the NRCC and Washington Republicans push racist attacks to vilify our Black - and only Black - staff, and endanger their personal safety, but we’re not surprised they’re hellbent on division – that’s their playbook.
The thinly veiled intent behind AOC’s tweet to vilify a Jewish organization is crystal clear and further contributes to the vilification of American Jews, aOC’s intentional isolation of AIPAC and her failure to call out the numerous bipartisan and left-leaning groups working to keep Justice Democrat candidate Summer Lee out of office shows her true colors.
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#1326 | improve | |
#1528 | consider | |
#1701 | respect | |
#1727 | benefit | |
#2157 | protect | |
#3400 | enhance | |
#3551 | raise | |
#3876 | regard | |
#4855 | tend | |
#5397 | refine | |
#5455 | favor | |
#6486 | shield | |
#6760 | praise | |
#11256 | sustain | |
#19974 | conserve | |
#22440 | uphold | |
#25147 | commend | |
#25495 | cherish | |
#27690 | applaud | |
#36357 | purify | |
#68369 | exalt | |
#70221 | laud | |
#79099 | extol | |
#80199 | vindicate | |
#141077 | vilify | |
#323815 | eulogize |
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