reviled

Memories play a key role — people loved and lost, places missed and reviled.

For a brief moment, it appeared the reviled Joshua tree would serve this purpose.

For years, Cheney was a hero to the Republican right for his forthright manner and dry-as-dust ideological beliefs - and reviled by the left, who accused him of working for the interests of the oil industry.

Hoover-style service resumed, in other words, with a new target even more universally reviled than Red infiltrators.

Under pressure from its overseas hosts and increasingly reviled at home, the militant group had little choice but to relent.