Reverse Dictionary: VILIFY

NOUNS
► LACK the act of vilifying → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► SALT BOMB personal vilification → 2000s African-American sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BEDIRTER a thrower of dirt; a vilifier → 1747 obs.

VERBS
► BAFFLE to speak to or of in terms of contempt; to vilify, to ‘run down’ → 1674 obs.
► BAUCHLE to subject to disgrace or ignominy; to vilify; to treat contemptuously → c1470 Sc. obs.
► BEDAUB to spatter with abuse; to vilify → 1553-87
► BEDIRT to cover or defile with dirt; to ‘throw dirt at,’ to vilify → 1622 obs.
► BEMEAN to treat harshly, to abuse, to vilify → 1908 Amer. dial.
► BESPATTER to cover with abuse; to vilify or slander, to calumniate → 1653
► BLAZE to vilify, to calumniate; to spread rumours → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CALL ONE OUT OF ONE’S NAME to abuse, to vilify → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEBASE to lower in estimation; to decry, to depreciate, to vilify → 1565 obs.
► DEBAUCH to vilify, to damage in reputation; to depreciate, to disparage → 1601 obs.
► ILLIFY to slander, defame, vilify, abuse; to speak disparagingly of → 1862 Eng. dial.
► JAWHAWK to abuse; to vilify → 1890 Amer. sl.
► OPPROBRIATE to speak abusively or contemptuously of or to; to reproach; to vilify → 1649
► POINT THE FINGER to accuse or vilify → 1829 Amer. sl.
► TRASH to vilify; to excoriate → 1975 US sl.