Reviling
[rɪ'vaɪlɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Revile
(n.) Reproach; abuse; vilification.
(a.) Uttering reproaches; containing reproaches.
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Examples
- The English and the Germans (he indignantly declared) were always reviling the Italians for their inability to cultivate the higher kinds of music. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They were reviling and cursing him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Our family has done her quite enough injury already, I think, and may leave off reviling her now she's down. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Could she have told her husband already that she had overheard Laura reviling him, in my company, as a spy? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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