reviler

American  

[ri-vahy-ler] / rɪˈvaɪ lər /

noun

1. someone who speaks abusively or contemptuously to or of another person or thing.

   The author said his father was an alcoholic, a self-hating reviler of anyone and everyone who disagreed with him.

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Etymology

Origin of reviler

revile ( def. ) + -er ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

Stanislaus Zbyszko's reviler was not the American's sports page, but the Sunday supplement American Weekly.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Surely," said they, "Ulysses has performed many good deeds, but now he has done the best thing of all in punishing this foul-mouthed reviler as he deserved."

From The Story of Troy by Clarke, Michael

But Samuel treated his reviler with much kindness, and one day King Habus and Samuel passed the same Moor.

From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Abrahams, Israel

The dogs follow him wherever he goes, and any reviler, and he cannot repel him.

From The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Anonymous

There, hold your tongue, you miserable, selfish reviler of one whom in your heart you look up to as a pattern of womanhood.

From Witness to the Deed by Fenn, George Manville