reviled

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of Revile

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A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths. Charles de Lint

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you." Plutarch

For the late twentieth-century museum director there is no more certain prospect for audience acclaim and sponsor success than those Impressionist and Post-impressionist artists who were so reviled a century earlier. Nicholas Serota

He threatened me grievously, and reviled me. William Tyndale

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day. Mary Douglas

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by. Chuck Palahniuk