VILIFY meaning: Make someone out to be villainous

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vilify: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
vilify: Merriam-Webster
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vilify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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vilify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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vilify: Online Etymology Dictionary
vilify: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Vilify (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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vilify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
vilify: Rhymezone
Vilify: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
vilify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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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.

Similar:

revile, vituperate, rail, defamate, vilipend, infamize, evilize, infamise, defame, deprave, more...

Opposite:

eulogize, praise, extol, exalt

Types:

slander, libel, defamation, demonize, demonization, demonisation, more...

Colors:

black, gray, dark red, maroon, charcoal, more...

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