Kurds and Persians vied with each other, when confronting them in the streets, in heaping abuse upon them, and in vilifying openly the Cause which they professed.
On the other hand, the degrading or vilifying an object, is done successfully by ranking it with one that is really low.
Perceiving that no point of this argument could be broken, he changed the ground, and satisfied himself with despising, upbraiding, and vilifying the writer.
The North has held the West in political slavery, by abusing and vilifying the South, and by waving the "bloody shirt"; but that old rag is about worn out.
Dan to Beersheba, not only attacking andvilifying the whites, for proposing to colonize the blacks, with their own free consent; but equally attacking the blacks for availing themselves of the offer.
Avoid the company of censorious backbiters and proud contemners of their brethren: hearken not to them that are causelessly vilifying others, aggravating their faults and extenuating their virtues.
Some slothful brethren think it necessary to cloak their fleshly ease by vilifying the diligence of others.
And of proud, heretical, contentious wits, whose wisdom and religion are nothing but censuring, reproaching, and vilifying them that are wiser and better than themselves.
It is a contempt of holiness, and a defacing, in that measure, the image of God upon the soul, or a rejecting it: a vilifying of all those graces which are contrary to the sin.
And to think that this avalanche of lies had been heaped up by those for whom he was labouring to free from oppression, those for whom he had suffered so much, and was still suffering, who were now vilifying him as a traitor.
The Tory argument was really a sample of the method of utilising the principle of population solely as a reason for not doing justice, while vilifying those who not only see the trouble but point out the remedy.
So that, on the whole, the nation appears not to have had all the reason they have so fully exercised in deriding and vilifying a sovereign, who had made them prosperous at the price of making himself contemptible!
Well, we finished the Australian tour and came back to America, only to be met with more severe and even more vilifying articles.
For years he assailed me from every angle, his vilifying articles never ceasing until his death.
Vilifying remarks are made and repeated among them which clever people would be incapable of uttering.
One can interest one's self in the dramatic incidents in the lives of one's acquaintances without ventilating or vilifying their character.
However, charity bindeth us to stifle contemptuous motions of heart, and not to vent them in vilifying expression.
Whence appears that we should be careful of not vilifying an offender beyond measure.
In such a contest mutual vilifying of course abounded, and it is not to be supposed a priori that the vilifying of one party was more truthful than that of the other.
