revile

Example Sentences

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Critics revile them for inflating housing costs, upending neighborhoods and contributing to the forces pushing locals and Native Hawaiians to leave Hawaii for less expensive states.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2024

It is, ad nauseam, a brothers-in-arms story, whose likable soldiers revile the self-important brass but are devoted to “the kid in the ditch” — the common soldier in harm’s way.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023

Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely,

From BBC • Jul. 4, 2023

You might not like him, maybe you revile him, but Doc Rivers is the right coach to replace Frank Vogel, writes L.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2022

Don’t we have a cheerful, simple morality here in Western Civilization: expect perfection, and revile the missed mark!

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver