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Nariman Tamimi had been expecting the raid: Over the previous week, an online campaign had vilified her daughter as a terrorist and demanded Ahed’s arrest.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2023

He had vilified witnesses who told the truth because he saw them “as a friend turning on you.”

From Slate • Jan. 18, 2013

The mainstream press, now known as the legacy media, which had vilified him and which he had vilified in turn, never employed him again.

From Washington Post

Quick to see his chance Defender Hogan roared to the jury that this Englishman had vilified American revolutionary leaders, had advised a yardarm hanging for George Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

They overwhelmed the king with insults and objurgations, in order that the Assembly might not dare to replace at the head of their institutions a prince whom they had vilified.

From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.