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His decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery.

Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves.

Of course, the newspapers of the land lived up to the reactionary policy of the ruling class, and the destroyed socialist press was misrepresented and vilified, while the Black Hundreds were represented as true patriots and saviours of society.

An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

The gentleman next door had been vilified by Nicholas; rudely stigmatised as a dotard and an idiot; and for these attacks upon his understanding, Mrs Nickleby was, in some sort, accountable.

Add to the rest, poor girl, that she had heard him vilified for her sake, and that she had suffered for his, and where the wonder that his occasional tones of serious interest (setting off his carelessness, as if it were assumed to calm her), that his lightest touch, his lightest look, his very presence beside her in the dark common street, were like glimpses of an enchanted world, which it was natural for jealousy and malice and all meanness to be unable to bear the brightness of, and to gird at as bad spirits might.

Too many aspects of our culture have been unnecessarily vilified. These little things, these words contribute to the uniqueness of the Jamaican culture and is what sets us apart from countries across the world,' Dr Andre Haughton, told the Observer newspaper.

Philippines 'unjustly vilified' in new global workers' rights report Bello !-- -- (Philstar.com) - July 5, 2019 - 5:46pm MANILA, Philippines Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III on Friday disputed the results of the International Trade Union Confederation's Global Rights Index 2019 that tagged the Philippines as among the top 10 worst countries in the world for working people, arguing that the Duterte administration is protecting workers.

Alanis Morissette has said she was "vilified and shamed and victimised and victim-attacked" after she wrote a song about sexual assault.

There is an old journalistic rule that says, 'If in doubt, leave it out', and looking back we were guilty of not encouraging more serious debate on this subject" Broadcaster John Sergeant "I know it's going to be hilarious to watch because we're pretty bad dancers" Broadcaster Claudia Winkleman who, along with Tess Daly, is to dance for 24 hours in aid of Comic Relief "They're just chasing Meghan Markle everywhere, she's been pursued and vilified. She's a woman who is seven months' pregnant and she is being pursued and vilified and chased in the same way that Diana was, and it's history repeating itself.

George Clooney is frustrated by the way the media is treating Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, comparing it to how the media covered Princess Diana.Clooney told reporters that Meghan is "a woman who is seven months pregnant and she has been pursued and vilified and chased in the same way that Diana was and it's history repeating itself.

GEORGE Clooney has claimed the Duchess of Sussex is being "pursued and vilified" - and compared her treatment with that of Princess Diana.