To vilify someone is to spread nasty stories about them, whether true or not.
To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
Verb
spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"
v. t.
To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
v. t.
To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce;
to calumniate.
v. t.
To treat as vile; to despise.
Vilify
When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite.2.
Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind.3.
I do vilify your censure.
Vilipend
To vilipend the art of portrait painting.
To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.
Usage Examples
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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Other Usage ExamplesWhen you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.
It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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