vilified
Example Sentences
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“I always felt that way and I was especially vilified for it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Knox told the Telegraph newspaper, external last week: "I don't joke about Meredith's death. I joke a lot about how I was vilified, but I don't joke about her murder."
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
By 1996, Richard Horton, then the editor of the Lancet, the British medical journal, could marvel: “He is now perhaps the most vilified scientist alive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
Her boyfriend was cleared but her landlord, Christopher Jefferies, was arrested, held far longer than was customary for someone never actually charged with a crime, and vilified in the press.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
She had seen her mentor Howard Fuller vilified.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
