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  • noun Plural form of vilifier.

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Examples

  • Among the vilifiers was Cigna's own former head of corporate communications, Wendell Potter, who became a high-profile champion of ObamaCare.

    Get Briefed: David Cordani 2010

  • The pro-video vitriol almost matches in irrationality the hysteria of the video's vilifiers.

    Lee Rosenbaum: "Hide/Seek" Gamesmanship: National Portrait Gallery Is Wrong Target Lee Rosenbaum 2010

  • The pro-video vitriol almost matches in irrationality the hysteria of the video's vilifiers.

    Lee Rosenbaum: "Hide/Seek" Gamesmanship: National Portrait Gallery Is Wrong Target Lee Rosenbaum 2010

  • As he wrote his name again and again, working down the pile, he talked of the “vilifiers” who wanted to tear the country apart.

    Truman Fires MacArthur David McCullough 2010

  • Ferociously vilified by the powerful Communist cultural apparat in Paris, Kravchenko sued one of the vilest vilifiers and eventually won symbolic damages, despite a long line of celebrated personages who ­testified in court that no labor camps existed in Russia.

    The View From the Inside 2009

  • Having failed as a politi - cian, Lamartine, toward the end of his life, turned into one of Plato's vilifiers, but this scarcely belongs to the history of literature.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

  • He must return an affirmative answer to all these questions in order to make it out that his State will be degraded and humiliated by ratifying the amendment; and the necessity of the measure is therefore proved by the motives known to prompt the attacks of its vilifiers.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

  • Let us watch with jealous care the honor of our country, and scorn the aspersions of its vilifiers.

    The Right of American Slavery

  • United States; for I believed that _my_ denial would only add sarcastic venom to the scandal of vilifiers.

    Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

  • Of course, these vilifiers of their own country were loud in their denunciations of me, but the prospect of losing the protection of their passports kept many of these men from open and treasonable denunciation of their own country.

    My Four Years in Germany Gerard, James W 1917

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