0 to say or write unpleasant things about someone or something, in order to cause other people to have a bad opinion of them:
1 to say or write unpleasant things about someone or something, in order to cause other people to have a bad opinion of that person or thing:
Now that madrasahs are filling some of the unmet demand for schooling, they have been repeatedly vilified.
Or perhaps they discounted the charge as yet another transparent attempt to vilify the poet, rather than a legitimate and substantive comparison.
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.
The cabinet preferred to vilify many aspects of its behaviour at the very time its support was needed most.
Hate speech does not just express discriminator y attitudes; it wounds, threatens, and vilifies its audience in ways that evoke visceral rather than articulate response.
