0 present participle of revile
1 to criticize someone strongly, or say unpleasant things to or about someone:
The judge was reviled in the newspapers for his opinions on rape.
In these districts, candidates who had spent years reviling each other made a great show of friendship and common purpose.
This became such a thorn in their sides that they didn't let a single day pass without reviling him in my hearing.
There is no demand for the old game of reviling a landed aristocracy, now shorn of its privileges and, alas, of most of its cash.
I do not say that this was under inspiration, but some of the papers went to abominable lengths in reviling some of the witnesses.
The banning of all reproaches and even the occasional reviling would, however, be a counsel of perfection.
We have had these people parading around at our seaside resorts long enough, reviling and laughing at our people while they smoke their cigars.
Yet these gentlemen never lose an opportunity of reviling the men who are in receipt of the dole as men who are subsidised for their unemployment.
Suppose that the book reviling the late husband (or the late wife) appears five years and one month after his death, why should she then be deprived of remedy?
