revile
verb (used with object)
to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
had reviled
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past perfectof revile.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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His selection of the energetically gifted Jack Kemp, whom Dole had reviled for years, was widely praised.
From Time Magazine Archive
For several weeks Pancho, the quick-tongued green parrot at Washington's Pan American Union, had reviled an Argentine student named Victor Fernandez, who went there to bone up on Latin American literature.
From Time Magazine Archive
His conscious has been awakened, and like Stesichorus when he had reviled the lovely Helen he will sing a palinode for having blasphemed the majesty of love.
From Phaedrus by Benjamin Jowett
He had reviled Nelatu’s sister while traducing his friend.
From The White Squaw by Mayne Reid
Doubtless he foresaw something in store for the yachtsman that would settle his own score against the fellow, the fellow who had reviled him.
From When the Cock Crows by Waldron Baily
