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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vilify \Vil"i*fy\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Vilified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Vilifying}.] [L. vilis vile + -fly; cf. L. vilificare to esteem of little value.]
1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.]
When themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned appetite. --Milton.
2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate. --I. Taylor.
Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind. --Addison.
3. To treat as vile; to despise. [Obs.]
I do vilify your censure. --Beau. & Fl.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "vilifying": abusive, back-biting, backbiting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, disparaging, execrating, execrative, execratory, invective, inveighing, judgmental, libelous, maligning, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative, priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, vituperative
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