Synonyms for vilify
ˈvɪl əˌfaɪvil·i·fy

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1. vilifyverb

   To say defamatory things about someone or something.

   Synonyms:
   slander, assail, denounce, libel, criticize, decry

2. vilifyverb

   To belittle through speech; to put down.

   Synonyms:
   decry, assail, criticize, slander, denounce, libel

3. vilifyverb

   Synonyms:
   berate

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1. vilify

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, victimize, violate, vituperate, wrong

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

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1. vilify

   Synonyms:
   debase, degrade, spoil, deteriorate, mar, defame, traduce, asperse, stigmatize, slander, upbraid, abuse, decry, cheapen

   Antonyms:
   purify, refine, exalt, raise, improve, enhance, eulogize, praise, laud, panegyrize, commend

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1. vilify, revile, vituperate, railverb

   spread negative information about

   "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews"

   Synonyms:
   fulminate, rail, train, vituperate, revile, rail off, inveigh, rail in

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1. • Abuse

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1. vilifyverb

   Synonyms:
   defame, traduce, revile, asperse, calumniate, scandalize, malign, reproach, abuse, blacken, blemish, slur, vituperate, backbite, lampoon, disparage, upbraid, berate, run down, speak ill of, accuse falsely, damn with faint praise

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1. vilifyverb

   Synonyms:
   malign, revile, vituperate, traduce, calumniate

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1. List of paraphrases for "vilify":

   demonize, denigrate, defame

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1. Tony Sayegh:

   I like a lot of these programs and am willing to give them creative license, but when they try and take a legitimate political message being used in real time like ‘ make America great again ’ -- which incidentally is working -- and vilify it by connecting it to terrorism, they defy even the most generous level of objectivity.

2. Phillip Calvert:

   Sometimes when Philwaukee Calvert take something and Philwaukee Calvert vilify it, it gets bigger and better.

3. Spokesman Henrik Vinge:

   We have not in any context or any way tried to vilify anyone.

4. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

   You know this is part of a pattern that the right and the far-right and, frankly, the President is consistent with, he doesn't have another woman, Hillary Clinton or whoever else, to vilify anymore so they need to find another woman to kind of prop up and become a lightning rod.

5. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton:

   We cannot, must not vilify police officers. Remember what those officers were doing when they died. They were protecting a peaceful march.