The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vilify \Vil"i*fy\ (v[i^]l"[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Vilified; p. pr. & vb. n. Vilifying.] [L. vilis vile +
-fy; cf. L. vilificare to esteem of little value.]
1. To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to disgrace. [R.]
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When themselves they vilified
To serve ungoverned appetite. --Milton.
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2. To degrade or debase by report; to defame; to traduce; to
calumniate. --I. Taylor.
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Many passions dispose us to depress and vilify the
merit of one rising in the esteem of mankind.
--Addison.
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3. To treat as vile; to despise. [Obs.]
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I do vilify your censure. --Beau. & Fl.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "vilifying":
abusive, back-biting, backbiting, belittling, bitchy, blackening,
blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious,
condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory,
denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory,
derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory,
disparaging, execrating, execrative, execratory, invective,
inveighing, judgmental, libelous, maligning, minimizing,
objurgatory, pejorative, priggish, reproachful, reprobative,
reviling, ridiculing, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous,
slanderous, slighting, vituperative