Thesaurus / vilifying
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synonyms for vilifying
- derogatory
- disparaging
- injurious
- insulting
- abusive
- calumnious
- contumelious
- denigrating
- detracting
- detractive
- maligning
- opprobrious
- traducing
- vituperative
- defamatory
- degrading
- demeaning
- disparaging
- sarcastic
- slanderous
- unflattering
- belittling
- calumnious
- censorious
- contumelious
- critical
- damaging
- deprecatory
- depreciative
- despiteful
- detracting
- disdainful
- dishonoring
- fault-finding
- humiliating
- injurious
- malevolent
- malicious
- maligning
- minimizing
- opprobrious
- reproachful
- scornful
- slighting
- spiteful
- unfavorable
- abominable
- calumnious
- defamatory
- detestable
- detracting
- detractive
- detractory
- discriminatory
- envious
- envying
- green-eyed
- jealous
- libelous
- maligning
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- repugnant
- scandalous
- slanderous
- slighting
- undesirable
- aspersive
- backbiting
- calumniatory
- calumnious
- contumelious
- debasing
- defamatory
- depreciative
- detracting
- detractory
- disparaging
- false
- injurious
- invidious
- malevolent
- malicious
- maligning
- opprobrious
- pejorative
- sarcastic
- scurrilous
- traducing
- untrue
- vituperative
- defamatory
- disgraceful
- heinous
- outrageous
- scurrilous
- shameful
- shocking
- slanderous
- unseemly
- untrue
- atrocious
- backbiting
- calumnious
- crying
- desperate
- detracting
- detractive
- gossiping
- ignominious
- infamous
- libelous
- maligning
- monstrous
- odious
- opprobrious
- red hot
- traducing
- calumniating
- castigating
- censorious
- contumelious
- defamatory
- derisive
- disparaging
- insolent
- insulting
- invective
- libelous
- maligning
- obloquious
- offensive
- opprobrious
- reproachful
- reviling
- rude
- sarcastic
- scathing
- scolding
- scurrilous
- sharp-tongued
- slanderous
- traducing
- upbraiding
antonyms for vilifying
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How to use vilifying in a sentence
Fromentin was singing,—a ribald marching song, an unprintable thing, salacious and vilifying the Boches.
THE WASTED GENERATIONOWEN JOHNSONWhat were further pecuniary exonerations, but deeper plunges into vilifying dissoluteness?
CAMILLAFANNY BURNEYVilifying remarks are made and repeated among them which clever people would be incapable of uttering.
CONVERSATIONMARY GREER CONKLINFor years he assailed me from every angle, his vilifying articles never ceasing until his death.
NAT GOODWIN'S BOOKNAT C. GOODWINWell, we finished the Australian tour and came back to America, only to be met with more severe and even more vilifying articles.
NAT GOODWIN'S BOOKNAT C. GOODWINThe meanness of the whole affair offended him—two big, strong men vilifying a woman with no protector but her two hands.
TOM GROGANF. HOPKINSON SMITHThese are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard.
THE PG EDITION OF CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS TO HIS SONTHE EARL OF CHESTERFIELDNo man—no woman—is always strong, always able to bear up against the unjust opinion, the vilifying word.
SHIRLEYCHARLOTTE BRONTI told you what sort Virelet was, straight as I could, without vilifying my own flesh and blood.
THE COMBINED MAZEMAY SINCLAIRWe pity him, that he did not see the force of his own evidence, that he was not led to the truth, rather than to the vilifying it.
THE CATHOLIC WORLD; VOL. IV.; OCTOBER, 1866, TO MARCH, 1867.E. RAMEURWORDS RELATED TO VILIFYING
- belittling
- calumnious
- censorious
- contumelious
- critical
- damaging
- defamatory
- degrading
- demeaning
- deprecatory
- depreciative
- despiteful
- detracting
- disdainful
- dishonoring
- disparaging
- fault-finding
- humiliating
- injurious
- malevolent
- malicious
- maligning
- minimizing
- opprobrious
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- scornful
- slanderous
- slighting
- spiteful
- unfavorable
- unflattering
- vilifying
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