Revile
[rɪ'vaɪl]
Definition
(v. t. & i.) To address or abuse with opprobrious and contemptuous language; to reproach.
(n.) Reproach; reviling.
Edited by Davy
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Vilify, defame, reproach, slander, calumniate, asperse, traduce, malign, abuse, backbite, lampoon, speak ill of, run down, accuse falsely, damn with faint praise.
Editor: Percival
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reproach, asperse, upbraid, malign, slander, calumniate, vilify, abuse,blaspheme
ANT:Flatter, compliment, eulogize, panegyrize, laud, extol
Checker: Maisie
Definition
v.t. to reproach: to calumniate.—v.i. to speak contemptuously.—ns. Revile′ment the act of reviling reproach; Revil′er.—adv. Revil′ingly.
Editor: Tracy
Examples
- In the meanness of your nature you revile me with the meanness of my birth. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How dare the lisping cockney revile Yorkshire! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- O, my friend, do not revile the world! Plato. The Republic.
- She has despised me--repulsed me--reviled me--And wherefore should I offer up for her whatever of estimation I have in the opinion of others? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Reviled by them all, deserted by them all, I was left alone in the room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Mingling with the coward band there assembled, they reviled their admirable leader, and asserted their own superiority and exemption. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He reviled them as Saxons and snobs at the very top pitch of his high Celtic voice; they taunted him with being the native of a conquered land. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It was then demolished by a mob and its inventor reviled, but it afterward became the pride of Lyons and the means of its renown and wealth in the weaving of silks of rich designs. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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.
- Down with such dishonesty, says the creditor in triumph, and reviles his sinking enemy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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