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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

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

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

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

Rather, he is a man who has been so deformed and twisted by a society that reviles him that he can only stand up tall when he has been cast out of it.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2022

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

That was the case with 2003’s critically reviled bomb “Gigli” starring a then-engaged Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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

Monica was humiliated, reviled, then merely defined by her missteps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 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

“Once I was the most hated and reviled of women,” she said.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

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

Caliphate intellectuals are united in reviling the Islamic State, but beyond that, their projections of the future vary widely.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2018

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 latter, cursing and reviling the luckless Belgians, danced like a madman on the sodden deck, till, losing his balance, he subsided heavily against the massive tiller.

From Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman