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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 selection of the energetically gifted Jack Kemp, whom Dole had reviled for years, was widely praised.

From Time Magazine Archive

And he, his son, had not said one word of comfort or strength; he had thought of himself and his own wrongs, and being reviled he had reviled again….

From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Benson, Robert Hugh

He had reviled Nelatu’s sister while traducing his friend.

From The White Squaw by Reid, Mayne

You remember," he said, "the answer of our friend Dumas, when they asked him for a subscription towards a monument to a man whom every one had reviled in the beginning of his career.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.