How to Use vilification in a Sentence

vilification

noun

• Despite the implicit bigotry of the barb, Trump’s vilification of an entire people in the form of a crude jab barely made the news.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
• And that often enables the vilification of Israel to take place.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
• There was a risk that the movie easily could fall prey to parody or, worse, vilification.
  — Mia Galuppo, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• Over time, the GOP’s core competence came to be vilification.
  — Robert B. Reich, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
• Trump’s effort to rile up his base was also evident in his vilification of the judge who approved the search warrant.
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 4 Sep. 2022
• Clearly Sorkin sees the Chicago 7 as victims of the vilification of dissent.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2020
• The vilification of the 'other side' is now normative among too large a swath of our population.
  — Nate Bennett, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• That fight had a lot of activity and back and forth with the acrimony and vilification that was taking place.
  — Gabriel Baumgaertner, SI.com, 29 June 2012
• The vilification of Isiah Thomas began in his prime playing years.
  — Rich Cohen, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
• Many students come to college having been exposed to sort of vilification in K-12 schools.
  — Evan Gerstmann, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• As for the censorship of music and the vilification of the early Lollapalooza festivals, which Rage Against the Machine played, even stripping nude in protest.
  — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 21 Feb. 2023
• In that endeavor, his recent vilification by progressives is more likely to help him at home than to hurt him.
  — Steve Chapman Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• And Hur’s predicament — and his vilification — enlarges a concern about the future of public service.
  — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2024
• In the face of constant obstacles and vilification, our leaders have not cowered.
  — Ilhan Omar, Star Tribune, 16 Dec. 2020
• This broad vilification of hunters was already underway when CPW commissioners met for their first meeting of the year in Denver last week.
  — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024
• Since the advent of meme-stock trading and the vilification of short-sellers that win only if popular companies lose, large investors are wary of making such trades.
  — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• Trump’s vilification of Hillary Clinton, Atwood believes, is more explicable when seen through the lens of the Puritan witch-hunts.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2017
• There has been a surge in threats and attacks against figures of both political parties in recent years, and Ms. Pelosi, in particular, has long been the subject of vilification and threats.
  — Tim Arango, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2022
• This also can’t turn into a vilification of all police.
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 27 May 2020
• Faith in voting systems has become polarized along partisan lines, thanks in no small part to Trump’s vilification of the system and his refusal to accept that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
  — Isaac Arnsdorf, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• Trump has put forth a narrative about Latinos that revels in vilification.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• The 10-episode series, Herrera says, does a great job at unpacking the complex history of the genre — from its roots in Panama to its vilification and then later broader acceptance.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
• After fighting all the way to the Supreme Court, his conviction was overturned, but only after Ali spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, suffered vilification in the press, and lost some of the prime years of his career.
  — Jonathan Eig, Slate Magazine, 27 Feb. 2017
• There has been a surge in threats and attacks against figures of both political parties in recent years, and Nancy Pelosi, in particular, has long been the subject of vilification and threats.
  — Glenn Thrush, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• The embargo of Qatar, begun in June 2017, has grown personal, with the two sides waging nasty campaigns of media vilification, and has even led to proxy skirmishes in Somalia.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2020
• Despite the vilification online, the president showed no remorse for his tweet and instead doubled down on his media attacks.
  — Christopher Rosen, EW.com, 2 July 2017
• Today, the scientists who remain in Iraq battle decades of vilification from both inside and outside their country.
  — Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
• Montville does an excellent job of capturing the changing mood of the times, from the American public's support of the war and vilification of Ali to its gradual shift against the conflict and subsequent acceptance of Ali.
  — Leigh Montville, Philly.com, 2 July 2017
• By the time the crack epidemic hit in the 1980s, the vilification of poor minorities became so rife with panic that harsh policy quickly followed from President Ronald Reagan.
  — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 30 Oct. 2017
• The ascent of water bottles to status symbol probably began with the vilification of the disposable kind.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024