0 past simple and past participle of vilify
1 to say or write unpleasant things about someone or something, in order to cause other people to have a bad opinion of them:
Now that madrasahs are filling some of the unmet demand for schooling, they have been repeatedly vilified.
In fact, they vilified the international market to such an extent that foreign military threats and hostile foreign diplomacy became insignificant.
It was both celebrated as "picturesque" and vilified as a source of contamination.
Critics of state policy were vilified in the media as traitors.
The materials examined allow tentative judgements about a group which has been vilified in the historiography of the subject.
Bramsbury's depiction does not suggest an idyllic, temperate working class who were unfairly vilified by the press and higher classes.
She would be vilified in the press.
She will be vilified in the press.
