reviled
Example Sentences
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Her candor has been revered as much as it’s been reviled.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 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
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
I leave us with the country roused against us, and our liberator and commander reviled.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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