How to Use vilify in a Sentence

vilify

verb

• He was vilified in the press for his comments.
• The boys, all between the ages of 14 and 16 at the time of their arrests, were vilified by the press.
  — Candice Benbow, Glamour, 30 May 2019
• At the same time, no man was more vilified and scoffed at.
  — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 2 July 2019
• Yet, while some of his deputies were vilified, Rosselló seemed to emerge unscathed.
  — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
• By the same token, anyone unmasked as less than a moral paragon will be vilified.
  — Paula Marantz Cohen, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
• That means the political class has to back the police, not vilify them.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 5 Feb. 2022
• Netanyahu has been heckled by reservists and vilified in the press.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
• The Russian leader, for his part, has gone out of his way to vilify those who have left, likening them to gnat-like insects.
  — Vasiliy Kolotilov, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2022
• The burpee is one of the most vilified exercises out there (if not the most), and honestly, there are good reasons.
  — Amy Marturana, SELF, 19 May 2019
• The musical, while meant to appeal to crabby commuters of all stripes, is not meant to vilify the T or its workers.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2021
• There's been a lot of interest recently in retelling the stories of women who were vilified by the press.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 30 Nov. 2019
• She was vilified by the right and abandoned by Hollywood.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, chicagotribune.com, 22 July 2019
• Women are often vilified and condemned for the deaths of their male partners.
  — Lisawhill, Longreads, 9 July 2019
• Cohen and Trump had not seen each other in person since that plea, and in the years since the former friends have often sought to vilify each other.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 25 Oct. 2023
• But now Monahan would undertake a covert mission to meet the man his team had vilified.
  — Kate Kelly, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• The president will vilify any firms that lay off workers.
  — The Economist, 25 Dec. 2019
• They were vilified and at one point, homeless and unemployed.
  — James Brown, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
• Black slavery started in the early 1500s and as long as slavery was accepted by most people, there was no need to vilify the slave.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 May 2022
• The movement has made people more willing to listen to victims rather than vilify and attack them, Dempsey said.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN, 9 Feb. 2020
• Case in point: Both the fast-fashion and farm-to-table meat industries are allowed free rein by City Hall while farm-to-fashion fur is vilified.
  — Faran Krentcil, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Sep. 2019
• The antagonists of the film are only presented as elitists, a group often vilified on both sides of the aisle.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2019
• Her only concern was that her mother, Teri Shields, might be vilified in the final product.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 19 Aug. 2023
• Black mothers have been vilified and actively harmed for hundreds of years.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
• The Fastolf Master and his patrons changed the facts in order to vilify Muslims as enemies.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• Not only attempted to vilify me but smeared me and Adam Schiff in ways that have changed our lives completely with the security threats.
  — Major Garrett, CBS News, 28 July 2023
• Seven months later, in October, at a second meeting with residents, a young activist stood and used the land agent’s words to vilify the project.
  — Darryl Fears, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2022
• Orientalism has always been based on a desire to know, and not merely to construct, or even vilify, the Other.
  — Adam Shatz, The New York Review of Books, 20 May 2019
• Critics, on the other hand, accuse Lopez Obrador of trying to vilify the media and undermine checks and balances against his power.
  — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
• Because history is written by men and the male perception of women is to vilify us, put us down, call us witches.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2022
• His attorneys have said Petersen ran a legal adoption practice and has been vilified before his side of the story comes out.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024