Usually means: Speaks or writes about negatively.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word vilifies:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. vilifies: Merriam-Webster
  2. vilifies: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vilifies: Collins English Dictionary
  4. vilifies: Vocabulary.com
  5. vilifies: Wordnik
  6. vilifies: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. vilifies: Wiktionary
  8. vilifies: Dictionary.com
  9. vilifies: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. vilifies: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vilifies: Legal dictionary

(Note: See vilify as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (vilify)

verb:  (transitive) To say defamatory things about someone or something; to speak ill of.
verb:  (transitive) To belittle through speech; to put down.
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