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Recent Examples of vilification One of Trump’s problems in his second term, though, is that this daily stream of vilification is, by now, a very familiar script. Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 17 July 2025 Despite this national vilification, however, Wisconsin voters reelected La Follette in 1922. Time, 16 July 2025 The law declares the value of the families that LGBTQ people create at a time when the federal government has marked people who are not straight and cisgender as targets for vilification and exclusion. Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025 But some say the vilification of developers is misplaced. Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for vilification
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Noun
  • Trump has repeatedly denied writing the letter and sued the Wall Street Journal, which was first to report on the letter, for defamation.
    Nik Popli, Time, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Trump has repeatedly denied writing any such letter and is suing the Journal’s parent company, publisher, reporters and owner Rupert Murdoch for $10 billion in a defamation lawsuit filed in the Southern District of Florida.
    Emily Goodin, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • McQueen countersued him on several claims as well, including libel, intentional infliction of emotional distress and intentional interference with contractual or business relationships.
    Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Bellis later added $473 million in punitive damages, bringing the total libel judgment to $1,436,620,000—believed to be one of the largest in American history.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Among Democrats, criticism has grown louder as the war becomes deeply unpopular with the party base.
    David Sivak, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But the Cowboys, who gave out big extensions to wide receiver CeeDee Lamb and quarterback Dak Prescott, couldn't come to terms with him on a new deal, which led to Jones receiving plenty of criticism.
    Robert Marvi, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025

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“Vilification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vilification. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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