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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 China’s vilification of Lai echoes Beijing’s denunciations, roughly two decades ago, of Chen Shui-bian, then president of Taiwan. Bonny Lin, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for vilification
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Noun
  • Last week, a filing in the defamation case against Powell also showed the parties seeking voluntary dismissal.
    Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2025
  • In a statement shared with The Guardian, a spokesperson for Ferguson said the duchess felt compelled to send the email after Epstein allegedly threatened to sue her for defamation over her comments to the Standard.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Apart from the libel suits, which the President can add teeth to by threatening regulatory sanctions or by slow-walking mergers and other business deals that require government approval, this is the persecution of people and organizations based on point of view.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Ressa knows a thing or two about fighting a government that is trying to silence the free press; in the Philippines, she was arrested and later found guilty of libel due to the fact that Rappler was critical of then-President Rodrigo Duterte.
    Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The criticism drew a sharp and dismissive response from Kelani Jordan.
    Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The move came on the heels of NFL analyst Rex Ryan's previous criticisms of Sanders’ outspoken nature.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Vilification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vilification. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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