vilification
IPA: vɪɫʌfʌkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- slanderous or malicious defamation; character assassination
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Examples of "vilification" in Sentences
- His stinging 1938 memoir Homage to Catalonia brought him vilification from the left.
- Mary Bale pleads guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to tabby she dropped in a bin, as judge accepts she has faced 'vilification'
- The right have no answer to the economic crisis, and instead engage in crass vilification, which is why they - and their appalling party - are totally unfit to govern.
- “The concept of vilification is about inciting hatred and really promoting and provoking serious contempt and revulsion of other people because of their race or religion.”
- It's "vilification" if the rhetoric and vitriol is directed at a Democratic president, but loyal opposition when similar comments made against President Bush as Hitler personified.
- Had Senator Clinton denounced the Chávez regime and told Mr. Belafonte frankly that he is an idiot to lend support to an aspiring dictator, the Move-on/Daily Kos crowd would have erupted in vilification.
- All credit goes to Debra Burlingame, who had the courage to tell us what was happening at the site in her original Wall Street Journal op-ed and to stand up to nothing less than personal vilification from the editorial page of The New York Times.
- Bale, who appeared close to tears in court and admitted a charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal, was spared the maximum penalty of six months in prison or a £20,000 fine as the district judge Caroline Goulborn acknowledged the "vilification" she had suffered.
- For a man whose treatment by much of the national press was described as "vilification" by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge; as "monstering" by his solicitors and as "character assassination" by another significant observer, Jefferies proves remarkably dispassionate about his story.
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