verb
definition
To attack (someone) with abusive language.
Examples of reviled in a Sentence
The humans and immortals alike reviled him and what he did.
For the first twenty years of its existence, the Net 's development was almost completely dependent on the much reviled American federal government.
This is an intriguing and tense drama about the life of one of historyâs most reviled figures.
Much reviled, he may be more deserving of pity.
Often reviled by her contemporaries, today she is considered a ' modern ' heroine.
Uranus was predominantly reviled by fellow gods and men.
People love to hate her - in fact, in 2005, she was voted Most Reviled Reality Show Contestant by TV Guide readers.
Widely anticipated, following the cliff-hanger ending of 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, it was both loved and reviled.
It was reviled because it was thought that Lucas was beginning to 'sell out' to the commercialization of his empire, with the creation of the lovable aliens, the Ewoks, who resembled feral teddy bears, living in a stone age culture.
The 'monster' wasn't a monster until he was shunned and reviled by first his creator and then by everyone he met.
One in particular is universally reviled for its dire service record.
But I want to point you to the Savior who, when He was reviled, reviled not again for you.
Well, they are all entitled to their views, but why among the world of sport is motor racing so reviled?
For all he is now reviled, he had people eating out of his hands at rallies by using this technique.
The building was intended to be "a place of public meeting for all sorts and descriptions of people, without distinction, who shall behave and conduct themselves in an orderly, sober, religious and devout manner, for the worship and adoration of the eternal, unsearchable and immutable Being, who is the author and preserver of the universe, but not under and by any other name, designation or title, peculiarly used for and applied to any particular being or beings by any man or set of men whatsoever; and that no graven image, statue or sculpture, carving, painting, picture, portrait or the likeness of anything shall be admitted within the said messuage, building, land, tenements, hereditament and premises; and that no sacrifice, offering or oblation of any kind or thing shall ever be permitted therein; and that no animal or living creature shall within or on the said messuage, &c., be deprived of life either for religious purposes or food, and that no eating or drinking (except such as shall be necessary by any accident for the preservation of life), feasting or rioting be permitted therein or thereon; and that in conducting the said worship or adoration, no object, animate or inanimate, that has been or is or shall hereafter become or be recognized as an object of worship by any man or set of men, shall be reviled or slightingly or contemptuously spoken of or alluded to, either in preaching or in the hymns or other mode of worship that may be delivered or used in the said messuage or building; and that no sermon, preaching, discourse, prayer or hymns be delivered, made or used in such worship, but such as have a tendency to the contemplation of the Author and Preserver of the universe or to the promotion of charity, morality, piety, benevolence, virtue and the strengthening of the bonds of union between men of all religious persuasions and creeds."
On re-entering Milan Charles Albert was badly received and reviled as a traitor by the Republicans, and although he declared himself ready to die defending the city the municipality treated with Radetzky for a capitulation; the mob, urged on by the demagogues, made a savage demonstration against him at the Palazzo Greppi, whence he escaped in the night with difficulty and returned to Piedmont with his defeated armp. The French Republic offered to intervene in the spring of 1848, but Charles Albert did not desire foreign aid, the more so as in this case it would have had to be paid for by the cession of Nice and Savoy.
All you could do was join the queue and be reviled by people driving by, feeling superior, that 's what.
There is also something delicious in knowing that they are universally reviled by critics the World over.
Henry Kissinger has described him as " a fashionably reviled man of the right ".
Thatcher is the most reviled woman in British politics.
If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you 're blessed because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
Three weeks later the treaty of Turin ceding Savoy and Nice to France was ratified, though not without much opposition, and Cavour was fiercely reviled for his share in the transaction, especially by Garibaldi, who even contemplated an expedition to Nice, but was induced to desist by the king.
Her uncle, the duke of Norfolk, whom she was reported to have treated "worse than a dog," reviled her, calling her a "grande putaine."
According to a later story, Achilles, after he had slain the Amazonian queen Penthesilea, bitterly lamented her death; for this he was reviled by Thersites, who even insulted the body of the dead queen.
Yet on the death of his king and patron in 1777, when court intrigue forced him from his high station, he who had done so much for his country's institutions was reviled on all hands.
He was brought before several tribunals, laughed at, caressed, reviled, menaced, but in vain.
A hundred bad writers misrepresented him and reviled him; but not one of the hundred could boast of having been thought by him worthy of a refutation, or even of a retort.
He was attacked and reviled as the chief author of the troubles on all sides.