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vilify

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To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace.

To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to calumniate.

To treat as vile; to despise.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. Edgar Allan Poe

When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history. Alexander Siddig

When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him. Shia LaBeouf

Whether it's in Ferguson or Baltimore, the response from senior officials, the president or the attorney general, is to vilify law enforcement. That's wrong. It's fundamentally wrong. It's endangering all of our safety and security. Ted Cruz

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation. Orhan Pamuk

There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted. Vera Farmiga

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