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1. Waging a highly negative campaign, the candidate attempted to vilify his opponent's reputation.

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 Meanings and Examples of VILIFY
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vilify
 v.  debase; degrade; spread negative information about
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1  Waging a highly negative campaign, the candidate attempted to vilify his opponent's reputation.
2  He has vilified political opponents who support a tax on carbon-dioxide emissions; the oil sands industry, Canada's fastest growing CO2 polluter, says he's out of step.
3  The agency has been vilified by some doctors for being unnecessarily slow to approve life-saving drugs.