reviling

Example Sentences

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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 jeers and reviling had died away, the tumult in nature had subsided--and the sacred stillness of evening brooded over those who remained.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von