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Example sentences for "reviled"

Lexicographically close words:
reviewer; reviewers; reviewing; reviews; revile; revilers; reviles; reviling; revilings; revisal
  1. Robin, although delighted to acquire a new follower, hotly reviled his companion for stealing the silver, whereupon Little John declared the sheriff had given it to him and volunteered to produce him to confirm his words.

  2. She hotly reviled Galahad for not having asked the momentous question, and the youth, learning thus in what way he had been wanting, solemnly vowed to return to the castle and atone for his omission.

  3. Peering down into the stone-pit, Dante then timidly proffers his request, only to be hotly reviled by Pope Nicholas III, who first mistakes his interlocutor for Pope Boniface, and confesses he was brought to this state by nepotism.

  4. Incidentally he reviled all North Britain, the rest of the earth, the sea--and all his companions.

  5. Once Donkin reviled him for half an hour; reproached him with the extra work his malingering gave to the watch; and ended by calling him "a black-faced swine.

  6. Eugenie, watching at the window across the street, ran to tell her father, who came out on his steps and reviled the van with all the fluency of his French ancestors.

  7. He had heard him criticised and reviled and praised, just as is every man who goes to the White House, be he saint or sinner.

  8. But they were forced to withdraw, for Egyptians reviled them and foreigners went so far as to hurl stones at the sacred boats of the divinities.

  9. After that he reviled my piety, in public; conspired with such frivolous minds as his own, and with the aid of Phoenicians stole state secrets.

  10. They reviled him, and said: Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

  11. But I don't want to be reviled in your presence.

  12. She was an angel and feared God with one side of her spirit; but with another she was a devil, and reviled all that was holy.

  13. All their energies were bent toward the grotesque figure that reviled them.

  14. And thus was cold-blooded murder planned by the very men who reviled The Orphan because they claimed he was a murderer, and who cried aloud for his death on that charge.

  15. In reply she reviled him, and thrust him with abhorrence from her.

  16. Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are the disciples of Moses.

  17. He had reviled "the Church," and they at once caught "the excommunicatory fever.

  18. A member of the house committee reviled him with profanity and took the names of witnesses who could testify that Dyckman struck the first blow.

  19. He reviled himself for confessing this to himself, and his sympathies went out to Kedzie because the poor child had to be yoked with a reluctant mate.

  20. The captain of the English was that Glasdale who had reviled the Maid, and concerning whom she had prophesied that he should die without stroke of sword.

  21. So now I prayed for spirit enough to defend my honour and that of my country, which I had borne to hear reviled without striking a blow for it.

  22. And the Maid has appointed you to go with her, for that you took her part when men reviled her.

  23. Others held us at bay with long lances, and never saw I any knight do his devoir more fiercely than he who had reviled the Maid.

  24. The King reviled her and commanded her to be taken back to her chamber: then he turned to Taj el Mulouk and said to him, 'Woe to thee!

  25. I chid her and reviled her, at which she wept; then wiping away her tears, she came up to me and kissed me and pressed me to her bosom, whilst I held back from her and blamed myself.

  26. Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are Moses' disciples.

  27. Then he reviled me, and told me that he would send such a one after me that should make my way bitter to my soul.

  28. Thus in his first argument this reviler vilified and slandered me; in this second argument he reviled Christ much more than me.

  29. But lately, retreating through Mewar, he went to the shrine of Krishna and prostrating himself before his heathen image reviled the god as the cause of his disaster.

  30. He reviled himself, declaring that it was harder on the Gulab than on him--and he was actually suffering.

  31. The Tory, on the other hand, while he reviled the mild and temperate Walpole as a deadly enemy of liberty, could see nothing to reprobate in the iron tyranny of Strafford and Laud.

  32. The man who had taken her openly reviled his mother in the most shameless way, upon her remonstrance at the act.

  33. He alleged that she then reviled him, for which he struck her (of which there were marks), whereupon she drowned herself.

  34. To be reviled and to feel no pain," this is the Chinese ideal of shamelessness.

  35. I dare say there was never gentlewoman that reviled a man as I reviled him; and at all times he gave me goodly and meek answers again.

  36. See how their newspapers have reviled you!

  37. Rochefort reviled the emperor and all his family in the newspaper he edited, "La Lanterne," calling upon Frenchmen to make an end of the Bonapartes.

  38. He reviled her, called her by opprobrious epithets, and told his father that he would never consent to see her.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reviled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.