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reviled

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re·vile  (r-vl)
v. re·viled, re·vil·ing, re·viles
v.tr.
To assail with abusive language; vituperate. See Synonyms at scold.
v.intr.
To use abusive language.

[Middle English revilen, from Old French reviler : re-, re- + vil, vile; see vile.]

re·vilement n.
re·viler n.
re·viling·ly adv.
Translations
reviled [rɪˈvaɪld] adjhonni(e)


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Still, however, bending his head meekly, and perhaps stretching out his hands to bless those who reviled him, he pursued his way.
Hence it is evident that a city is a natural production, and that man is naturally a political animal, and that whosoever is naturally and not accidentally unfit for society, must be either inferior or superior to man: thus the man in Homer, who is reviled for being "without society, without law, without family.
At first she spoke to him softly, but when she learned all that had come to pass, her words were not soft, for she reviled me and sang a loud song at Umslopogaas.
 
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