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
• He was vilified, he was called all sorts of names, soft and all sorts of things.
  — Nathaniel Cline, cleveland.com, 13 June 2017
• The Italian media dug up her work and spun it to vilify her.
  — Amanda Knox, Marie Claire, 6 Feb. 2018
• For decades, fat has been vilified as the worst part of the American diet.
  — Time, Time, 29 Sep. 2017
• He was vilified in South Africa in 2010 for preventing a goal with his hands.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2018
• When LeBron makes that pass the guy misses it, he gets vilified.
  — John Canzano, OregonLive.com, 18 Mar. 2018
• Yet, while some of his deputies were vilified, Rosselló seemed to emerge unscathed.
  — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 21 July 2019
• In fact, for your own and others’ health, please break anything close to a habit of vilifying this or that food or food choice.
  — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 16 Dec. 2017
• Hip-hop, along with the black and brown people who created it, has been vilified since its birth.
  — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, 16 Apr. 2018
• 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
• But that movie, starring Michael Keaton as a former superhero star, vilified the genre as a scourge for art.
  — Jake Coyle, chicagotribune.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• 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
• He has been vilified by many Patriots fans in the wake of the Deflategate scandal.
  — Chris Chavez, SI.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Given the results of the recent election, in which government was often vilified, this may be a strange time to say this.
  — Daniel Bliss, Slate Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
• Question: Rose is vilified for drinking and cursing just like men do.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
• Christ reduced to a potato chip, debased and vilified like two thousand years ago.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• 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
• That vilified a large number of people who were here legally in the community of Springfield.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
• Ruto’s first response was to vilify the protesters and call for military action.
  — Michelle Gavin, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024