Example sentences for: reviled

How can you use “reviled” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Especially reviled is Hitz , starring trash-talking comedian Andrew Dice Clay, which suffers from too many penis jokes and a "gratingly loud laugh track" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (UPN plugs its shows.)

  • For decades, Kazan has been reviled as the most notorious of those who "named names"--identified Communists working in Hollywood--before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

  • Not so long ago, Elton was routinely reviled in the tabloids as a corpulent, drug-addled old poof (as the British say).

  • The cigarette companies have become national pariahs, endlessly reviled as heartless merchants of death and disease.

  • We may also know something about how history was rewritten wholesale in the Soviet Union during those years--how the facts concerning the October Revolution were successively recast as key figures fell from favor, how the existence of Leon Trotsky was first reviled and then denied after he was forced into exile in 1927, how even such things as the invention of electric light were reattributed to Russians in the textbooks (an astonishing number of scientific breakthroughs were allegedly the work of one Popov).


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