How to Use vilification in a Sentence

vilification

noun
  • What does not help, in any way, is the vilification of people who do not have children.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There was a risk that the movie easily could fall prey to parody or, worse, vilification.
    Mia Galuppo, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • In that endeavor, his recent vilification by progressives is more likely to help him at home than to hurt him.
    Steve Chapman Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
  • Trump’s effort to rile up his base was also evident in his vilification of the judge who approved the search warrant.
    Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 4 Sep. 2022
  • And that often enables the vilification of Israel to take place.
    CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The vilification of the 'other side' is now normative among too large a swath of our population.
    Nate Bennett, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • That fight had a lot of activity and back and forth with the acrimony and vilification that was taking place.
    Gabriel Baumgaertner, SI.com, 29 June 2012
  • In the face of constant obstacles and vilification, our leaders have not cowered.
    Ilhan Omar, Star Tribune, 16 Dec. 2020
  • Trump has put forth a narrative about Latinos that revels in vilification.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
  • The vilification of Isiah Thomas began in his prime playing years.
    Rich Cohen, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The way such seed oils are typically made also contributes to their vilification.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Over time, the GOP’s core competence came to be vilification.
    Robert B. Reich, Star Tribune, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Many students come to college having been exposed to sort of vilification in K-12 schools.
    Evan Gerstmann, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • Despite the implicit bigotry of the barb, Trump’s vilification of an entire people in the form of a crude jab barely made the news.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 15 Nov. 2025
  • We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants.
    René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Despite the vilification online, the president showed no remorse for his tweet and instead doubled down on his media attacks.
    Christopher Rosen, EW.com, 2 July 2017
  • And Hur’s predicament — and his vilification — enlarges a concern about the future of public service.
    Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Clearly Sorkin sees the Chicago 7 as victims of the vilification of dissent.
    Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2020
  • And always these massacres were preceded by vilification, by slanders.
    CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • Since the advent of meme-stock trading and the vilification of short-sellers that win only if popular companies lose, large investors are wary of making such trades.
    Joe Rennison, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Today, the scientists who remain in Iraq battle decades of vilification from both inside and outside their country.
    Peter Schwartzstein, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
  • Her vilification was fueled by the perception of Ono as an exotic temptress, and from a basic refusal to take her seriously.
    Beatrice Loayza, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Despite the vilification that has become popular in some corners, my colleagues and I went to work every single day with a public health mindset.
    Richard Hughes Iv, STAT, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The ascent of water bottles to status symbol probably began with the vilification of the disposable kind.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 Dec. 2019
  • Takaichi’s Japan is now headed in the opposite direction, with Xi’s campaign of vilification a vital spur.
    Andy Browne, semafor.com, 2 June 2026
  • After more than half a century of vilification by nutrition scientists, however, many of us in the West have deprived ourselves of its charms.
    Nicola Twilley, The Atlantic, 22 May 2017
  • In an interview with Variety published this week, Smollett spoke of his public vilification.
    Dan Heching, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
  • In his first five episodes, Newsom has mostly capitulated to right-wing guests, agreeing with them on issues such as trans women competing in sports and the vilification of white men.
    David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The vilification on the right of Renee Good in Minneapolis.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 16 Jan. 2026

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