(vilifies, ~ing, 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
vilification
Clare did not deserve the vilification she had been subjected to.
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