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While the original XFL made a show of reviling the stodgy NFL, this iteration embraces its status as an aspirant upstart.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2020

Which is to say that he can never escape that St. Louis comic or that reviling mother or Aunt Fritzi or “Haim Afen Range” or, for that matter, Joel Katz.

From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2016

“But he is partly responsible for a strange bifurcation in our minds,” revering agriculture and reviling industrialism, even though “farming has done more extensive damage to wildlife habitat than all the factories ever built.”

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2013

Their purpose in reviling Grass as a Nazi and anti-Semite is precisely to silence anyone who might even consider following his lead.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2012

Yes, in sooth, so it is," said Donna Rodriguez; "but these squires are our sworn enemies; they can find no other pastime than reviling us.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de