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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I have reviled no man’s person: I have outraged no man’s privacy.
From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse
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
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
"I believe they have reviled the Republic in calling its chiefs heartless, and sold to ambition!" said the old man, with generous warmth, disregarding the stern rebuke which gleamed in the eye of Jacopo.
From The Bravo by James Fenimore Cooper
If you had in good earnest despised him, you would have let him alone, as he does Dr. Ward, Mr. Baxter, Pike, and others, that have reviled him as you do.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
