vilifying
- present participle of vilify.
Example Sentences
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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
According to Carl Schmitt, a prominent Nazi and for a time the official legal theorist of the party under Adolf Hitler, one builds and maintains a community by identifying and vilifying its enemies.
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2023
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
