Example Sentences

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“With goodwill and common sense, I believe we can come up with ways to do this, without vilifying and demonizing children.”

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2025

They hope the results, instead of vilifying logging companies, can help spur a conversation about what forest managers can do better.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

Justin Welby and Stephen Cotterell said the government's response, to what Rishi Sunak has called a shocking rise in extremism, "risks vilifying the wrong people".

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024

We can have a discussion about spending without vilifying Republicans.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2024

Adams read in the newspapers that Jefferson had compiled “a Magazine of slips of newspapers, and pamphlets, vilifying, calumniating and defaming you.”

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis