Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of vilifying or defaming.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse.
WordNet 3.0
- n. slanderous defamation
- n. a rude expression intended to offend or hurt
Examples
““The concept of vilification is about inciting hatred and really promoting and provoking serious contempt and revulsion of other people because of their race or religion.””
“All credit goes to Debra Burlingame, who had the courage to tell us what was happening at the site in her original Wall Street Journal op-ed and to stand up to nothing less than personal vilification from the editorial page of The New York Times.”
“His stinging 1938 memoir Homage to Catalonia brought him vilification from the left.”
“Had Senator Clinton denounced the Chávez regime and told Mr. Belafonte frankly that he is an idiot to lend support to an aspiring dictator, the Move-on/Daily Kos crowd would have erupted in vilification.”
“The right have no answer to the economic crisis, and instead engage in crass vilification, which is why they - and their appalling party - are totally unfit to govern.”
“Bale, who appeared close to tears in court and admitted a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, was spared the maximum penalty of six months in prison or a £20,000 fine as the district judge Caroline Goulborn acknowledged the "vilification" she had suffered.”
“Mary Bale pleads guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to tabby she dropped in a bin, as judge accepts she has faced 'vilification”
“It's "vilification" if the rhetoric and vitriol is directed at a Democratic president, but loyal opposition when similar comments made against President Bush as Hitler personified.”
“Obama added, The problem is that this kind of vilification and over-the-top rhetoric closes the door to the possibility of compromise.”
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Interesting words
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concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Censure (n.)
aspersion, calumny, contumely, diatribe, obloquy, opprobrium, philippic, tirade, vilipendency, tantalization, admonition, beration and 23 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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five syllables
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vozcelik's Words
cranny, tummy, nook, sinister, cajole, frugal, chafe, wimp, booger, patriarchy, indifference, mire and 162 more...
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Hodges English 10 Vocab
All the vocab will get in class over the year.
aberration, acrimony, adduce, anthropomorphous, caitiff, chagrin, clement, connote, deluge, deride, dissemble, edify and 213 more...
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SAT Words Appearing More Than Once on...
A list of 166 words that have appeared more than once on official SAT exams. Based on Gruber's SAT Word Master list.
abolish, ameliorate, ambulatory, ambivalent, acquiesce, affirmation, atrophy, anchor, amity, amass, accent, abridge and 154 more...
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kevincooper's Words
prosopopeia, lisle, magisterial, zeitgeist, zeugma, bloviate, apocryphal, bon mot, cacophony, euphony, brigandier, micturition and 313 more...
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Clerks Chapters
I assure you, we're open!
opening credits, vilification, silent, syntax, vagary, purgation, malaise, perspicacity, paradigm, whimsy, quandary, lamentation and 30 more...
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