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The Irishman defended then chairman Peter Lawwell and chief executive Michael Nicholson, claiming attempts to "dehumanise and vilify them are shameful".

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

And while I like the idea of “replacing opposition with cooperation,” imagining that I’d vilify my kid turns me off.

From Slate ● May 10, 2026

She smiles often and laughs easily, a very American trait that helped vilify her in European eyes during her trial.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2025

“Ricky Cobb was a productive citizen of this community, and we will not let you vilify him,” family attorney Bakari Sellers said at a news conference.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2024

Ser Barristan did not like this Gerris Drinkwater, nor would he allow him to vilify Daenerys.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

But the organisation says, in reality, it "glorifies thinness and vilifies weight gain" and "promotes disordered eating behaviours."

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025

The latter is a woodsy, whimsical track that puts Swift in the hot seat as she vilifies herself as the albatross and that "she is here to destroy you."

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

"The departure of Meghan and Harry from royal ranks has been far more damaging to the monarchy than the coverage that vilifies them understands or accepts," she told Reuters.

From Reuters ● Dec. 15, 2022

The show, by contrast, is more blunt in its critique; it actively vilifies those who try to decide, unilaterally, how the world should pay for its sins.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2019

No, no, the madman shall not be believed Who in his own child vilifies himself.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various

“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

Although North Korea has relentlessly suppressed religion and vilified American missionaries, the origins of this hereditary cult are found in a surprising place: Protestant Christianity, and in particular, postbellum American Presbyterianism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 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

She had seen her mentor Howard Fuller vilified.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Asked to comment about the senators’ letter, McLaughlin said, “The vilifying of our law enforcement must stop.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

As “silly” as that "law" may be, Hitler remains the ultimate go-to example for vilifying an opponent.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2024

Justin Welby and Stephen Cotterell said the government's response, to what Rishi Sunak has called a shocking rise in extremism, "risks vilifying the wrong people".

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024

We can have a discussion about spending without vilifying Republicans.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024

Adams read in the newspapers that Jefferson had compiled “a Magazine of slips of newspapers, and pamphlets, vilifying, calumniating and defaming you.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis