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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
vilify .
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Examples
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Note: that term vilifies the Papist Irish, if you were not aware.
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Download it All for Free a sarcastic title vilifies file sharing with such lyrics as, "Who would that really hurt, when everybody’s out of work."
Music Review: Kid Pan Alley: Nashville CD | Thingamababy 2006
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I have to admit, I really hate Alec Baldwin, and hearing him say those vile things to his poor little girl kind of vilifies why I hate him so much.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Then the story shifted once again when Dean Allen Levine told Minnesota Public Radio that the film "vilifies agriculture."
Paula Crossfield: The Troubled Waters of Big Ag's Academic Influence Paula Crossfield 2010
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Although the Chinese government constantly vilifies the Dalai Lama and bans public displays of his picture, many ethnic Tibetans inside China still revere him.
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In another broadside, a popular late-night program on state television called "The Razor," which every night vilifies Chávez opponents, alleged that Mr. Capriles was caught having sex with a man in a car.
Chávez Rival Hit by State Attacks Kejal Vyas 2012
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France -- the country the GOP vilifies as a bastion of wine-swilling egalitarian liberals -- has stepped up deportations, according to the Washington Post.
Michelle Chen: Immigrant Scapegoating: Not Just an American Pastime Michelle Chen 2012
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This should come as good news to those still following the show, such as myself, and vilifies the TV by Numbers guys who have insisted all along that the show was safe.
12 « March « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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He says violence also worsens from time to time, when the local media vilifies sexual minorities, running programs that treat homosexuality as a disease or a dysfunction.
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Or is it part of a wider cultural debate about implicit censorship by left-biased media that give licence to the likes of Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle for their "ironic" offensiveness but vilifies Davidson and his ilk?
A little conservative laughter, please | Stephanie Merritt 2011
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