16 English Synonyms for VILIFY

Definition: 1. Improper treatment or usage; application to a wrong or bad purpose; an unjust, corrupt or wrongful practice or custom. [from around 1350 to 1470]

There are 15 definitions of the word abuse

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Definition: 1. (transitive) To attack with harsh words or violent force (also figuratively).

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Definition: 1. To find fault (with something).

There are 2 definitions of the word criticize

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Definition: 1. (transitive) To denounce as harmful.

There are 2 definitions of the word decry

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Definition: 1. (transitive) To criticise so as to besmirch; traduce, disparage or defame.

There are 3 definitions of the word denigrate

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Definition: 1. To turn into a demon.

There are 2 definitions of the word demonize

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Definition: 1. (transitive, obsolete) To make known in a formal manner; to proclaim; to announce; to declare.

There are 6 definitions of the word denounce

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Definition: 1. To defame (someone), especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel.

There are 7 definitions of the word libel

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Definition: 1. (ambitransitive) To attack (someone) with abusive language.

There are 2 definitions of the word revile

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Definition: 1. A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.

There are 2 definitions of the word slander

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Definition: 1. To decline in quality or condition.

There are 11 definitions of the word run down

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Definition: 1. (transitive) to chide or scold vehemently

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Definition: 1. (intransitive, figuratively) To make a verbal attack.

There are 5 definitions of the word fulminate

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Definition: 1. (obsolete, transitive) To partially repeal (a law etc.). [16th]

There are 6 definitions of the word derogate

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Definition: 1. A mark made by smearing.

There are 19 definitions of the word smear

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Definition: 1. (transitive) To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.

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