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Synonyms 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.
Synonyms:
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, wrongAntonyms:
applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate
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vilifyverb
Synonyms:
defame, traduce, revile, asperse, calumniate, scandalize, malign, reproach, abuse, blacken, blemish, slur, vituperate, backbite, lampoon, disparage, upbraid, berate, run down, speak ill of, accuse falsely, damn with faint praise
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vilifyverb
Synonyms:
malign, revile, vituperate, traduce, calumniate
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#772 | mar | |
#1673 | wrong | |
#2225 | abuse | |
#2266 | damage | |
#2505 | train | |
#4108 | rail | |
#6159 | harm | |
#12746 | violate | |
#14038 | misuse | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#23356 | criticize | |
#28024 | prostitute | |
#28564 | libel | |
#28860 | degrade | |
#33274 | slander | |
#34306 | injure | |
#34734 | pervert | |
#37387 | deteriorate | |
#40292 | denounce | |
#42903 | reproach | |
#65039 | persecute | |
#66548 | decry | |
#66795 | oppress | |
#72172 | malign | |
#73765 | defame | |
#78097 | defile | |
#82174 | assail | |
#84156 | disparage | |
#85386 | molest | |
#86920 | denigrate | |
#100414 | demonize | |
#116298 | berate | |
#123302 | cheapen | |
#141077 | vilify | |
#146615 | stigmatize | |
#148587 | revile | |
#151654 | ravish | |
#162847 | debase | |
#164852 | victimize | |
#244580 | upbraid | |
#261276 | fulminate | |
#288415 | traduce | |
#317019 | maltreat |
How to use vilify in a sentence?
At the core, sport is a human endeavor, and we like to cheer for our fans. We like to vilify the umpires, it’s a theater of sport and part of that would be lost if we moved to robotic officiating.
The lawsuit filed today outlines the defendants’ nefarious plot to vilify Donald J. Trump by spreading lies to weave a false narrative that he was colluding with Russia, for years, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts attempted to shield themselves from culpability by directing others to do their dirty work for them.
We have not in any context or any way tried to vilify anyone.
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.
I am deeply sorry for many things I have done. However, it is my hope that revealing the truth will lead to a bright, dope-free future for the sport I love, in the rush to vilify Lance, many of the other equally culpable participants have been allowed to escape scrutiny, much less sanction, and many of the anti-doping 'enforcers' have chosen to grandstand at Lance's expense rather than truly search for the truth.
Translations for vilify
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- ذمArabic
- hanobitCzech
- verunglimpfen, diffamieren, verteufeln, verleumden, herabwürdigenGerman
- kalumniiEsperanto
- vilipendiarSpanish
- panetellaFinnish
- diffamer, calomnierFrench
- càinScottish Gaelic
- memfitnahIndonesian
- denigrare, diffamare, calunniareItalian
- לְהַשְׁמִיץHebrew
- けなす, そしるJapanese
- whakahariharitaeMāori
- verguizen, kleinerenDutch
- oczerniać, potępiaćPolish
- vilipendiarPortuguese
- поносить, опускать, унижать, очернятьRussian
- 丑化Chinese
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