revile
verb (used with object)
to assail with contemptuous or opprobrious language; address or speak of abusively.
have reviled
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present perfectof revile.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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No more of that: You have reviled my father: me, too, Ribaumont; Heaven knows, I little merit it!—My lord, Upon this theme we must not meet again.—
From The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts by George Colman
And then I say to myself: 'You have reviled and slandered yourself; you are, after all, a good angel; God is with you, and prayer, love, and innocence, are in your heart.'
From Napoleon and Blucher by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
If thou hadst not been an adversary thou wouldst not have calumniated me, thou wouldst not have reviled my teaching in order that, when declaring what I have myself heard from the Lord.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
She could almost have reviled the woman who had given this beneficent magician, this pathetic exile, of the aristocratic sunburned visage and deeply scrutinizing eyes, cause for grief.
From The Egoist by George Meredith
You have reviled my mother, and I will go hence and tell her of it.
From Henry VIII and His Court by Henry Niles Pierce
