Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who defames or traduces; a calumniator.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who vilifies or defames.

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  • noun One who vilifies

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel

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Examples

  • One night not long ago, over dinner with ten executives in the finance industry, I heard the president described as “hostile to business,” “anti-wealth,” and “anti-capitalism”; as a “redistributionist,” a “vilifier,” and a “thug.” ...

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » New Names, Same Old Enemies 2010

  • One night not long ago, over dinner with ten executives in the finance industry, I heard the president described as “hostile to business,” “anti-wealth,” and “anti-capitalism”; as a “redistributionist,” a “vilifier,” and a “thug.” ...

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » New Names, Same Old Enemies 2010

  • One night not long ago, over dinner with ten executives in the finance industry, I heard the president described as “hostile to business,” “anti-wealth,” and “anti-capitalism”; as a “redistributionist,” a “vilifier,” and a “thug.” ...

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » New Names, Same Old Enemies 2010

  • One night not long ago, over dinner with ten executives in the finance industry, I heard the president described as 'hostile to business,' 'anti-wealth,' and 'anti-capitalism'; as a 'redistributionist,' a 'vilifier,' and a 'thug.'

    James Kwak: Wall Street CEOs Are Nuts 2010

  • One night not long ago, over dinner with ten executives in the finance industry, I heard the president described as 'hostile to business,' 'anti-wealth,' and 'anti-capitalism'; as a 'redistributionist,' a 'vilifier,' and a 'thug.'

    James Kwak: Wall Street CEOs Are Nuts 2010

  • One night not long ago, over dinner with ten executives in the finance industry, I heard the president described as “hostile to business,” “anti-wealth,” and “anti-capitalism”; as a “redistributionist,” a “vilifier,” and a “thug.”...

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » New Names, Same Old Enemies 2010

  • One night not long ago, over dinner with ten executives in the finance industry, I heard the president described as “hostile to business,” “anti-wealth,” and “anti-capitalism”; as a “redistributionist,” a “vilifier,” and a “thug.”...

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » New Names, Same Old Enemies 2010

  • One night not long ago, over dinner with ten executives in the finance industry, I heard the president described as “hostile to business,” “anti-wealth,” and “anti-capitalism”; as a “redistributionist,” a “vilifier,” and a “thug.”...

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » New Names, Same Old Enemies 2010

  • Re Cure d'Ars, on a distasteful note, the Pill has wheeled out vilifier of Pope Pius XII, John Cornwell, to complain that his diet of mouldy potatoes and use of the discipline is not suitable for our 'enlightened' era.

    The joy of following Christ 2009

  • So I like to think, at least when it really counts, that I'm a circumspect champion and vilifier of triangles.

    Jeff Dorchen: Study Proves Other People Are Even Worse Than We Thought 2008

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