to revile
23
8.2
- verb
- /rɪˈvaɪl/
- Offensive
:
insultar
- Thurgood Marshall was reviled and threatened at gunpoint as he traveled the South in the civil rights struggle.
- the much-reviled celebrity
- the once reviled politician
So I can't hear you reviling me.
- So I can't hear you reviling me.
- And as it says in the translation, they revile him.
- And actually, they're reviled by, from what I understand, by native hunters above the Arctic Circle for being wasteful hunters.
- Do you call godfather and yet attack revile your fellow human being?
Examples
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Many sportsmen are reviled as over-privileged stooges of the regime; the coaches have retired or gone abroad.
Academic text (1994) -
They'll be reviled forever by a large segment of the global population, and so...
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You took me from home against my will, and now you revile me.
Fiction book (1993) -
We tolerate Islam in our land, but they revile us in theirs.
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Banished and reviled... yet he was still the boy she once called friend.
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The president's subsequent attack on the Republicans' proposed budget for Medicare was widely reviled among opinion leaders.
Academic text (1997) -
After the scandal, many people began to revile the politician for his corrupt actions.
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It is sad to see how fans can revile their heroes for making a mistake.
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The crowd started to revile the referee after he made a controversial call during the game.
Synonyms
543
2.1
To say or do something rude to someone
108
4.6
To make someone look silly in a mean way so others laugh at them
61
5.3
To strongly criticize someone in public
48
7.8
To say bad things about someone without a good reason to make them seem less important
43
7.9
To say or write bad things about someone to harm them
42
7.1
To complain angrily about something
36
7.2
Scold someone angrily and severely
28
7.7
To speak badly about someone or something to show little respect
26
7.8
To make fun of someone in a cruel way
26
6.9
To tell someone firmly that you do not approve of their actions
21
5.6
To criticize someone or something harshly
15
7.3
To severely criticize someone or something
14
8.8
To criticize or punish someone very harshly
12
8.2
To criticize someone very strongly and angrily
10
6.9
Tear something into many pieces or say very bad things about it
9
9.8
To criticize someone or something very harshly in public
8
6.5
To tell someone you are disappointed in what they did
7
9.3
To criticize someone publicly to make them feel ashamed
4
7.9
Scold someone very strongly for a mistake
4
7.4
To attack someone with strong angry words
3
9.5
Say bad things about someone in public to show others what they did
3
8.8
To scold someone strongly for something they did wrong
2
9.9
To scold someone angrily
1
8.5
Shout at someone in a very angry way and threaten them
1
8.0
To criticize someone or something very strongly in public
1
8.4
Say or do things that make someone seem less respected
To criticize someone angrily using harsh words
Attack someone with strong words in public
Strongly insult someone in front of others to embarrass them
To say bad things about someone in public to make them feel ashamed
To say strongly that someone or something is wrong
To criticize someone or something sharply in public
To attack someone harshly with words, often in writing
To speak angrily to someone and criticize them
Antonyms
How Harshly
43
7.9
- Offensive
23
8.2
- Offensive
543
2.1
55
2.2
701
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word revile comes from the prefix re- plus vile, and vile comes from an old word meaning 'worthless'. So to revile someone is to call them 'worthless' or speak about them in a very angry and insulting way.