When a few days had passed the killer gave himself up; he confessed to the authorities, informing them that he had committed the murder because Mullá Taqí had vilified Shaykh Aḥmad.
They broke into Shams’s house, hemmed her in, abused and vilified her, and inflicted grievous bodily harm.
He and his fellow-laboureres vilified and goaded whole communities of starving manufacturers.
Against Him, in His early childhood, whilst His Father lay a prisoner in that dungeon, had been directed the malice of a mob of street urchins who pelted Him with stones, vilified Him and overwhelmed Him with ridicule.
Even the children of the imprisoned exiles, whenever they ventured to show themselves in the streets during those days, would be pursued, vilified and pelted with stones.
As an atheist he was vilifiedin a manner familiar to modern ears, the Alexandrian poet Callimachus labelling him an "arrogant old man vomiting impious books.
In the times of the Commonwealth, when all things were agreeable which vilified our kings, these secret histories were dragged from their lurking holes.
He and the Scotch had been vilified by their invectives; and they were menaced by two lawyers, with a "Sicilian vespers, or a Parisian matins.
I do not forget, before the public journals vilified Mrs. Lincoln, that ladies who moved in the Washington circle in which she moved, freely canvassed her character among themselves.
I will not state which, but I, you know, am aware of how you have been slandered and vilified by a certain person that you know.
I am being slandered; I'm being vilified by evil people--and right in my own church!
Washington Vilified 768yet there was a general desire on the part of the Americans to save his life.
Yea, pride itself will make him take it as an addition to his glory, to be vilified and opposed by such miscreants as these.
No wonder that they have vilified and denounced the American party with every term of opprobrium that our vocabulary can furnish.
The press worked on both sides of the question; while it vilified Bute, it animadverted on Pitt's pensions and honours.
Albert, who, though he suspected she was somewhat right, blushed to find the party he had espoused should be so vilifiedby his beloved: "might not your father be also equally blinded and deceived?
Our grandmothers and great-grandmothers were strangely vilifiedin their unpleasing likenesses.
After having exhausted their wrath against our vestments, and vilified them as the rags of the wicked woman of Babylon, the members of the Ritualistic church have, with remarkable dexterity, passed from one extreme to the other.
We have been vilified so long, that they think we have no right to complain.
You have since repudiated me and vilified my name, simply because, having found that I had enemies, and being afraid to face them, you wished to escape from your engagement.
The doctor who had given the certificate was vilified in the newspapers, and long articles were written as to the impotence of the law.
Robert Louis Stevenson had to take up his pen in defence of the heroic martyr of the leper, Father Damien, vilified by a Protestant minister.
It thus happened that the friars found themselves denounced andvilified in Spanish newspapers, in circular letters issued at Madrid, in speeches at the lodges and clubs, and in the Cortes.
Should I be wrong if I were to prophesy that three years hence he will be more hated and vilified by the Tory party than the present advisers of the Crown have been?
Their gallantries have taught, both them and their admirers, good-breeding; without which they could keep up no dignity, but would be vilified by those very gallantries which put them in vogue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vilified" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
