reviling
- present participle of revile.
Example Sentences
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Other language of the Passions I find none: for Cursing, Swearing, Reviling, and the like, do not signifie as Speech; but as the actions of a tongue accustomed.
From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas
For us the long past ages have not flown; Like our own deeds they travel with us still; Reviling them, we but ourselves disown; We are the stream their many currents fill.
From Education and the Higher Life by Spalding, J. L.
Reviling himself with a bitterness that was explicit but impotent, he started off resolutely to seek the aid of the police--the last extremity.
From Nedra by McCutcheon, George Barr
"Treat no one with disdain, with patience bear Reviling language; with an angry man Be never angry; blessings give for curses."
But on she will, and secrets tell Of John and Joan, and Ned and Nell, Reviling every one she knows, As fancy leads, beneath the rose.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
