revile

But amid the ruins near the turquoise waters of the Caribbean coast, the effort is colliding with ordinary Venezuelans who revile their government.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

Published this month by the University of Georgia Press, Thurmond’s book makes a case that Oglethorpe evolved to revile slavery and, unlike most white Europeans of his time, saw the humanity in enslaved Africans.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024

Her life of looking closely at those we would rather revile or ignore has earned her attention in return.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 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

Oh, a wife may revile such a man with every silent curse she knows.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, a fellow New York Republican who reviles Santos, introduced a bill this year aimed at foreclosing just that possibility.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 2, 2023

It’s human nature to bristle at the side that reviles you.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 17, 2021

To his credit, Wolff is astute and a little shamefaced when analysing the complicity between Trump and the journalists whom he officially reviles.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2020

“When the film finds a global audience, it might feel very real if you live in a community that reviles love that doesn’t occur between two heterosexuals,” Mantello says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2020

"He has no coin and the only knight who follows him reviles him as less than a snake. The Dothraki make mock of his weakness. He will never take us home."

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

In his home village in Punjab, Bishnoi is admired rather than reviled for many of the crimes attributed to him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Philips is one of India's best-known - and most polarising - doctors online: admired by supporters as a fearless champion of evidence-based medicine, reviled by critics as an attention-seeking provocateur.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

Take Halle Berry, one of the more famous examples of the post-Oscar slump, winning best actress in 2001 for “Monster’s Ball” before starring in the critically reviled bomb that was 2004’s standalone “Catwoman” film.

From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026

But the MEK was long considered a terrorist group by Washington and enjoys little support inside Iran, where it is reviled for allying with Saddam Hussein's Iraq during the devastating 1980-88 war.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

But whatever Hippasus’s true fate was, there is little doubt that he was reviled by his brothers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

While the original XFL made a show of reviling the stodgy NFL, this iteration embraces its status as an aspirant upstart.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2020

Rather instructive to see how people who otherwise regard themselves as empathetic and progressive take such glee in reviling a profoundly damaged person.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2017

Which is to say that he can never escape that St. Louis comic or that reviling mother or Aunt Fritzi or “Haim Afen Range” or, for that matter, Joel Katz.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2016

Their purpose in reviling Grass as a Nazi and anti-Semite is precisely to silence anyone who might even consider following his lead.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2012

The reviling does not become a determining factor in my own mental state unless I choose to let it.

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt