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
What if those midnight bells had been to me but as any other, and I had reviled them for breaking my sleep?—Johnson did not much exaggerate.
From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
Throughout all that had been said and done her sympathies had been with him, and had become the stronger the more her friends had reviled him.
From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
Never since the close of the war have I heard him utter words of bitterness against the enemies he fought, nor of the men in the north who had reviled him.
From Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. by John Sherman
