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• n  slanderous defamation
• n  a rude expression intended to offend or hurt

• Mark Lennihan AP The vilification of credit-card companies not entirely undeserved has reached fever pitch.
• Despite official vilification, hip Chinese dig Lamaist culture CINEMA: Brilliant Performances Six new actors who may come out of the wings on Oscar night.
• Public vilification of the Dalai Lama will not help defuse the situation.

• smear
• malignment
• abuse
• insult
• revilement
• contumely

News & Articles

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• Dubya Obama
  It wasn’t long ago that conservatives were complaining about Bush Derangement Syndrome. This had to do with the way otherwise intelligent people lost any sense of reason or proportion when it came to anything George W. Bush-related. The result was a poisoned debate on national security, and the vilification...
  June 8, 2013 - New York Post
• The Facts Were Immaterial
  The 'counterintelligence' operations of Hoover's FBI included harassment, vilification, violence – and fake 'underground' newspapers in Bloomington, D.C., and Austin
  June 6, 2013 - The Austin Chronicle

Quotes

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• John Negroponte in Reuters
  Public vilification of the Dalai Lama will not help defuse the situation,Negroponte told a US Senate hearing.
• David Gallop in Fox Sports
  There needs to be clear recognition that racial vilification is not tolerated in rugby league,Gallop said in a statement. "This is not something that happens on a regular basis and is not something that can be dismissed under the guise of...
• Harbhajan Singh in Daily Times
  Harbhajan replied: "No listen, he started it" to which Hayden responded: "Doesn't matter mate, it's racial vilification mate. It'sa shit word and you know it."