vilify

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• Both Irene and Clare are at once the villains and the victims of a society that would force them to choose one existence over another, vilifying Claire’s choices in one breath and praising Irene’s fair skin in the next.

• Wilkie used this language despite a caution from one of his own senior lawyers, who suggested rephrasing to avoid “deterring women veterans from coming forward” by “overly vilifying” Goldstein, according to the report.

• These facts will make it more difficult — more egregiously shameful — to vilify the arts as elite, out of touch or apart from the mainstream of American life.

• While she’s been embraced by voters in neighborhoods most affected by crime and policing, she’s been vilified in communities where most of the city’s police officers live.

• I took on my own party and my own president on this, and I was vilified, and I was called a traitor and a RINO.

• But it remains a moral crime to vilify good cops who have made the city safe, saving thousands of lives.

• And there is the additional fear in these types of cases that the public will vilify the victim, not a celebrity wrongdoer.

• With few Yankees left to vilify, Venezuela continues its slow motion spin into disrepair.

• Rather than vilify Republicans for their defense of the wealthy, he returned again to trying to win the intellectual high ground.

• Once upon a pre-feminist time, it was more common to vilify the woman.

• On the other hand, I could not bring myself by lengthy or impossible quotations to vilify Duns.