Revile

Word REVILE
Character 6
Hyphenation re vile
Pronunciations /ɹəˈvaɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Revile"

What do we mean by revile?

To assail with scornful or abusive language; vituperate. synonym: scold. intransitive verb

To use scornful or abusive language. intransitive verb

To cast reproach upon; vilify; especially, to use contemptuous or opprobrious language to; abuse; asperse.

Synonyms To vilify, abuse, malign, lampoon, defame. (See asperse.) The distinction of revile from these words is that it always applies to persons, is generally unjust and always improper, generally applies to what is said to or before the person affected, and makes him seem to others vile or worthless.

To act or speak abusively.

Revilement; abusive treatment or language; an insult; a reproach. noun

To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach. verb

Reproach; reviling. noun

To attack (someone) with abusive language. verb

Reproach; reviling noun

Spread negative information about verb

Reproach; reviling

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The word "revile" in example sentences

One that I par­tic­u­larly revile is “blood and trea­sure,” a favorite of warrior-politics neo­cons. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Why do you think God may have called any of these persons you so quickly dismiss and revile into ordained ministry or guided a Synod to vote for them? ❋ Unknown (2010)

You've got to put your stuff out there for the world to see, and fall in love with, or revile. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some of us admire them, some revile them, but most people can't imagine joining their ranks. ❋ Jay Walljasper (2011)

How is it that many of us with actual classroom experience, with extensive knowledge of education and its history, so revile recent reform movements? ❋ Shaun Johnson (2011)

“It makes no difference whatever whether they laugh at us or revile us, whether they represent us as clowns or criminals; the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again, and that we gradually in the eyes of the workers themselves appear to be the only power that anyone reckons with at the moment. …” ❋ Unknown (2010)

NEW YORK Here's good news for New York Yankees fans — and bad news for those who revile the club as the Evil Empire: The richest club in baseball is about to get richer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Casse continues: Mr. Caplan also claims that voters revile a corporation that downsizes at home and sends jobs abroad, a business decision that most economists view as socially productive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Freedom of women is what the Al Qaeda jihadis, as much as the Muslim Brothers in Egypt, most revile about the West. ❋ Nina Burleigh (2011)

With so much evidence piled up that the status of women in the West is what radical Islamist fighters revile most about us, the only question left is why haven't the Western countries made support of women a fundamental element of the diplomatic, military and political response? ❋ Nina Burleigh (2011)

It is these Right Wing talk show hosts who incessantly revile the federal bureaucrats as devils incarnate issuing unnecessary economy-strangling regulations merely to solidify their own continued employment. ❋ Edward Flattau (2011)

This does not mean I am against coursebooks or that I feel that using a coursebook page, albeit more creatively, is something I revile. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The negation of the negation is something like faith revealed as lies (which is why we revile hypocritical priests and pastors so very much). ❋ Unknown (2009)

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