had reviled
- past perfect of revile.
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
Others held us at bay with long lances, and never saw I any knight do his devoir more fiercely than he who had reviled the Maid.
From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew
She had reviled him, insulted him, and driven him away.
From The Haute Noblesse A Novel by Fenn, George Manville
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 Gissing, George
