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词汇 revile
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Definition of revile in English:

revile

verb rɪˈvʌɪlrəˈvaɪl
[with object]
  • Criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.

    辱骂,谩骂;痛斥

    he was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead

    如今他却遭到了他曾参与领导过的政党的痛斥。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They too were reviled as outsiders, branded as parasites on the indigenous society.
    • Not that it will be easy for a player reviled by the fans of almost every other team, even though he has been cleared of the offence more often than he has been found guilty.
    • Watching their offspring struggle for glory on the tennis court, mothers and fathers are among the most reviled people in sport.
    • People who are creative, who invent and discover new ways are reviled.
    • I revile her Party's views and racist policies wholeheartedly yet I believe that three years in a maximum security is a manifestly unjust sentence for her.
    • Anyone who tries to buck the trend is reviled, slandered and sentenced to career death.
    • Nancy Reagan was reviled as a Hollywood airhead until she was reviled as a secret Machiavellian.
    • While some rallied to the singer-poet's defence, he was reviled by others.
    • There will be tribulation and people will revile you and slander you, but he has overcome and that we live for that.
    • Rivaldo, reviled by supporters on the basis that he is not the revered Romario, has used that foundation to score five goals in as many matches.
    • Those people seem to hate you, even though they don't even know you, and don't know why but you fear them, because they have the power to see you starve to death in miserable conditions while reviling you for it.
    • In the course of that bitter conflict, Lincoln had been reviled and attacked without mercy.
    • Yet wherever he went in the country of his birth he was reviled and denounced as opportunistic and even racist.
    • And before reviling the New York Times, let's remember the good work the newspaper has put in over the past few years keeping up the pressure to make the new architecture at the World Trade Center site beautiful.
    • Why would he release such a valuable individual into a world where any citizen, young or old, would revile him as a monster?
    • It is one of the many ironies of his situation that the very same people who used to revile him for being enslaved to opinion polls now lambast him for not listening to the public.
    • To avoid this punishment a year ago the boy had begun lying, had taken to reviling the old man with his every breath, whereas in fact over the past year he had secretly visited the old man every day.
    • The meeting signified more than an alliance between the world's most wanted terrorist and the world's most reviled regime.
    • Beijing reviles Lee, an outspoken critic of China, for trying to break Taiwan out of diplomatic isolation during his 12 years in power, which ended in May 2000.
    • Adored by their fans and reviled by their critics, not since Stryper has a band with such big hair been so close to heaven and hell.
    Synonyms
    criticize, censure, condemn, attack, inveigh against, rail against, lambaste, flay, savage, brand, stigmatize, denounce
    blacken someone's reputation, defame, smear, slander, libel, traduce, cast aspersions on, cast a slur on, malign, vilify, calumniate, besmirch, run down, abuse
    informal knock, slam, pan, bash, take to pieces, take apart, crucify, hammer, lay into, slate, roast, skewer, bad-mouth
    British informal slate, rubbish, slag off, monster
    North American informal pummel
    Australian/New Zealand informal bag
    rare vituperate against, excoriate

Derivatives

  • revilement

  • noun
    • As copy editor, and as an acquaintance to many of the complainants, I have received several letters expressing individuals' revilement with the cavalier attitude presented toward women.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It did not seem at all incongruous, either, that these people who watched him by with scorn and longing and utter revilement, these were the people that he would fight for.
      • During the years of feminist revilement, Hughes wrote and said little in public about his life with Plath.
      • What's his next miscalculated step along the path to universal revilement and hatred?
      • Yogh grabbed hold of a nearby pillar to steady himself, and found out - much to his revilement - that it was composed of skulls, both human and animal.
  • reviler

  • noun
    • Rig Veda refers to these non-conformists as ‘Devapiyu’, i.e. revilers of Vedic gods.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The well-known cheer, meritorious though it may be, seemed misdirected to rival revilers like myself.
      • The Scriptures plainly warn professing Christians that ‘the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God… neither fornicators… nor idolaters… nor thieves, nor revilers… shall inherit the kingdom of God’.
      • These men are represented as mischief-makers and revilers, accusing without just cause, and converting innocence into treason.
      • Her vague use of the word sin, which includes the sin of the reviler in the previous stanza, allows the audience to participate in the poem by filling in that gap with specific sins.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French reviler, based on vil 'vile'.

Definition of revile in US English:

revile

verbrəˈvīlrəˈvaɪl
[with object]
  • Criticize in an abusive or angrily insulting manner.

    辱骂,谩骂;痛斥

    he was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead

    如今他却遭到了他曾参与领导过的政党的痛斥。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Why would he release such a valuable individual into a world where any citizen, young or old, would revile him as a monster?
    • The meeting signified more than an alliance between the world's most wanted terrorist and the world's most reviled regime.
    • Not that it will be easy for a player reviled by the fans of almost every other team, even though he has been cleared of the offence more often than he has been found guilty.
    • In the course of that bitter conflict, Lincoln had been reviled and attacked without mercy.
    • And before reviling the New York Times, let's remember the good work the newspaper has put in over the past few years keeping up the pressure to make the new architecture at the World Trade Center site beautiful.
    • Rivaldo, reviled by supporters on the basis that he is not the revered Romario, has used that foundation to score five goals in as many matches.
    • Anyone who tries to buck the trend is reviled, slandered and sentenced to career death.
    • It is one of the many ironies of his situation that the very same people who used to revile him for being enslaved to opinion polls now lambast him for not listening to the public.
    • While some rallied to the singer-poet's defence, he was reviled by others.
    • Watching their offspring struggle for glory on the tennis court, mothers and fathers are among the most reviled people in sport.
    • People who are creative, who invent and discover new ways are reviled.
    • They too were reviled as outsiders, branded as parasites on the indigenous society.
    • To avoid this punishment a year ago the boy had begun lying, had taken to reviling the old man with his every breath, whereas in fact over the past year he had secretly visited the old man every day.
    • There will be tribulation and people will revile you and slander you, but he has overcome and that we live for that.
    • Adored by their fans and reviled by their critics, not since Stryper has a band with such big hair been so close to heaven and hell.
    • Those people seem to hate you, even though they don't even know you, and don't know why but you fear them, because they have the power to see you starve to death in miserable conditions while reviling you for it.
    • Beijing reviles Lee, an outspoken critic of China, for trying to break Taiwan out of diplomatic isolation during his 12 years in power, which ended in May 2000.
    • Nancy Reagan was reviled as a Hollywood airhead until she was reviled as a secret Machiavellian.
    • Yet wherever he went in the country of his birth he was reviled and denounced as opportunistic and even racist.
    • I revile her Party's views and racist policies wholeheartedly yet I believe that three years in a maximum security is a manifestly unjust sentence for her.
    Synonyms
    criticize, censure, condemn, attack, inveigh against, rail against, lambaste, flay, savage, brand, stigmatize, denounce

Origin

Middle English: from Old French reviler, based on vil ‘vile’.

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