vilified
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“I always felt that way and I was especially vilified for it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
He recalled in one piece how he was vilified by the press at the time for supporting a pro-LGBT council motion.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 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
But the woman that people came to know on-screen as the bow-wielding renegade Katniss Everdeen — and off-screen as a goofy straight-shooter — was vilified by the media, discredited for the crime of being herself.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
She had seen her mentor Howard Fuller vilified.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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