Thesaurus / vilification
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After decades of prohibition and vilification, they are increasingly being employed as therapeutics.
PSYCHEDELICS ARE HAVING A MOMENT AND WOMEN COULD BE THE ONES TO BENEFITTAYLOR MAJEWSKIAUGUST 10, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWWe have moved from worship to skepticism to outright vilification of this country’s creators.
KEN BURNS' NEW DOCUMENTARY SHOWS BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN ALL HIS CONTRADICTIONSCRAIG BRUCE SMITHAPRIL 4, 2022TIMEThese groups represent the immune systems of our communities actively fighting against the pathologies of hate and vilification and working to grow and mobilize the moderate middle.
HALF THE U.S. BELIEVES ANOTHER CIVIL WAR IS LIKELY. HERE ARE THE 5 STEPS WE MUST TAKE TO AVOID THATPETER T. COLEMANJANUARY 6, 2022TIMEHe was honored and condemned, respected and despised—yet, for all the vilification, he was a patriot who for better or worse, built the FBI into a professional crime-fighting organization unmatched anywhere in the world.
WORKING FOR J. EDGAR HOOVER, I SAW HIS WORST EXCESSES AND BEST INTENTIONSPAUL LETERSKYJULY 22, 2021TIMEForeigners who attempted personal vilification found him ready to meet them with their own weapons.
MINOR POEMS BY MILTONJOHN MILTONEvidently Milton can cull words of extreme disparagement and vilification as well as words of unapproachable poetic beauty.
MINOR POEMS BY MILTONJOHN MILTONVilification tore at the other's lips, until friend and enemy marveled at what Steve took in silence.
THEN I'LL COME BACK TO YOULARRY EVANSSo vile was their language and conduct that "comedy" came to signify abuse and vilification.
HISTORY OF ENGLISH HUMOUR, VOL. 1 (OF 2)ALFRED GUY KINGAN L'ESTRANGECampaigns of vilification, corruption and false pretence have lost their usefulness.
THE ART OF PUBLIC SPEAKINGDALE CARNAGEY (AKA DALE CARNEGIE) AND J. BERG ESENWEINIt is a high trust, and despite the abuse and vilification heaped upon me, I shall remain faithful to it.
THEFTJACK LONDONWORDS RELATED TO VILIFICATION
- aspersion
- backbiting
- backstabbing
- belittlement
- black eye
- calumny
- character assassination
- cheap shot
- denigration
- depreciation
- detraction
- dirt
- dirty laundry
- disparagement
- dump
- dynamite
- hit
- knock
- lie
- low-down dirty
- mud
- obloquy
- opprobrium
- scorcher
- slam
- slap in face
- slime
- slur
- smear
- tale
- traducement
- vilification
- abuse
- aspersion
- backbiting
- backstabbing
- belittlement
- calumny
- damage
- defamation
- denigration
- deprecation
- derogation
- disesteem
- disparagement
- harm
- hit
- hurt
- injury
- injustice
- innuendo
- insinuation
- knock
- libel
- libeling
- lie
- maligning
- minimization
- muckraking
- obloquy
- pejorative
- revilement
- ridicule
- running down
- scandal
- scandalmongering
- scurrility
- slam
- smear campaign
- tale
- traducement
- traducing
- vilification
- vituperation
- wrong
- abuse
- affront
- aspersion
- black eye
- blasphemy
- cheap shot
- contempt
- contumely
- derision
- despite
- discourtesy
- disdainfulness
- disgrace
- disrespect
- ignominy
- impertinence
- impudence
- incivility
- indignity
- insolence
- invective
- libel
- mockery
- obloquy
- offense
- opprobrium
- outrage
- put-down
- rudeness
- scorn
- scurrility
- shame
- slam
- slander
- slap
- slap in the face
- slight
- snub
- superciliousness
- taunt
- unpleasantry
- vilification
- vituperation
- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- canard
- cock-and-bull story
- deceit
- deception
- defamation
- detraction
- dishonesty
- disinformation
- distortion
- evasion
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsity
- fib
- fiction
- forgery
- fraudulence
- guile
- hyperbole
- inaccuracy
- invention
- libel
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- myth
- obloquy
- perjury
- prevarication
- revilement
- reviling
- slander
- story
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- untruth
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
- aspersion
- backbiting
- calumniation
- calumny
- deceit
- deception
- defamation
- detraction
- dishonesty
- disinformation
- distortion
- evasion
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsity
- fib
- fiction
- forgery
- fraudulence
- guile
- hyperbole
- inaccuracy
- invention
- libel
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- myth
- obloquy
- perjury
- prevarication
- revilement
- reviling
- slander
- subterfuge
- tale
- tall story
- vilification
- white lie
- whopper
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