Definition of "vilified" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of vilify. (verb)

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• "In another widely reported comment, Rankin vilified a group of women who met with him in 1943 to protest his stand against overseas soldiers 'voting in the 1944 presidential election: If I am any judge, they are communists, pure and simple; probably more simple than pure."
• "Calumniated and vilified from the very first day, he never knew at what moment he would be banished."
• "Good Interpretation versus Evil Interpretation Mark Bennett, posits that every judicial decision involves "interpretation", a word vilified of late as the tool of evil activist judges bent on legislating from the bench."