revile

Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

re‧vile/rɪˈvaɪl/ verb [TRANSITIVE] written
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : reviler, from vil; ⇨ vile]
to express hatred of someone or something SYN hate:
　 ▪ The President was now reviled by the same party he had helped to lead.

verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Faulkner's neighbors both loved and reviled him in the same breath.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another Bloomsbury hallmark was witty conversation and upper-class snobbery, which has made Bloomsbury reviled in some circles.
▪ His reward is to have been reviled, misrepresented and physically attacked.
▪ It was originally reviled, as the artists intended, for its rejection of conventional values of art and society.
▪ Old-fashioned church practices, with foot-stamping and arm-waving, were reviled.
▪ She found it impossible to settle after his visit, and spent the time until she went to bed silently reviling him.
▪ These often reviled one another bitterly and openly attacked the government beyond the bounds of reason.
▪ Why should people jump at the chance to become a member of a minority so despised and reviled in so many quarters?

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  vilify, vituperate, rail