While she’s been embraced by voters in neighborhoods most affected by crime and policing, she’s been vilified in communities where most of the city’s police officers live.
As Trump Calls for Law and Order, Can Chicago’s Top Prosecutor Beat the Charge That She’s Soft on Crime?|by Mick Dumke|September 4, 2020|ProPublica
I took on my own party and my own president on this, and I was vilified, and I was called a traitor and a RINO.
Speak Softly and Carry Big Data (Ep. 395)|Stephen J. Dubner|October 31, 2019|Freakonomics
But it remains a moral crime to vilify good cops who have made the city safe, saving thousands of lives.
Protesters Slimed This Good Samaritan Cop|Michael Daly|December 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And there is the additional fear in these types of cases that the public will vilify the victim, not a celebrity wrongdoer.
Here’s What She’d Tell Bill Cosby Today|Dean Obeidallah|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With few Yankees left to vilify, Venezuela continues its slow motion spin into disrepair.
Venezuela’s Audio Hoax Sees Chavez Speaking From the Grave|Mac Margolis|October 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Rather than vilify Republicans for their defense of the wealthy, he returned again to trying to win the intellectual high ground.
Is This Thing On?|Daniel Stone|October 6, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Once upon a pre-feminist time, it was more common to vilify the woman.
Bedding the Boss|Tracy Quan|October 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Byron had sworn to love man and nature, and to glorify their works, on the very instant he seeks to degrade and vilify.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 396 October 1848|Various
Lagarde ('Deutsche Schriften,' p. 71) abuses him as a politician might vilify an opponent.
Outspoken Essays|William Ralph Inge
The Levitical party in Madrid have, in the meantime, spared no effort to vilify me.
Letters of George Borrow|George Borrow
There's a vile plot laid between you to delude—to vilify—to destroy me.
Three Courses and a Dessert|Anonymous
The former found it easier to exterminate than to civilize; the latter to vilify than to discriminate.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.|Washington Irving
British Dictionary definitions for vilify
vilify
/ (ˈvɪlɪˌfaɪ) /
verb-fies, -fyingor-fied(tr)
to revile with abusive or defamatory language; malignhe has been vilified in the tabloid press
rareto make vile; debase; degrade
Derived forms of vilify
vilification (ˌvɪlɪfɪˈkeɪʃən), nounvilifier, noun
Word Origin for vilify
C15: from Late Latin vīlificāre, from Latin vīlis worthless + facere to make