VILIFY


Meaning of VILIFY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ vɪlɪfaɪ ]

( vilifies, vilifying, vilified)

If you are vilified by someone, they say or write very unpleasant things about you, so that people will have a low opinion of you. ( FORMAL )

The agency has been vilified by some doctors for being unnecessarily slow to approve life-saving drugs...

He was vilified, hounded, and forced into exile by the FBI.

VERB : be V-ed for -ing / n , be V-ed , also V n , V n as n

• vili‧fi‧ca‧tion

Clare did not deserve the vilification she had been subjected to.

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