REVILED Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

reviled

verb

past tense of revile

as in hated

formal to speak about (someone or something) in a very critical or insulting way Many people reviled him for his callous behavior.

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Recent Examples of reviled The Houthi rebels have long been backed by Iran and reviled by Saudi Arabia. — Chris Lau, CNN Money, 26 July 2026 For a stock that just debuted a few weeks ago, it's fairly reviled. — Kevin Stankiewicz,alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 16 July 2026 Iran’s former supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reviled by some and revered by others, is set to be laid to rest after a sprawling multiday funeral ceremony planned as both a religious and a political spectacle. — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 3 July 2026 Shakespeare’s haughty Roman war hero, revered on the battlefield yet reviled by hungry plebeians, becomes the flash point in a young democracy tearing itself apart over power and sacrifice. — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026 They were both reviled and imitated, but always watched as a pop cultural spectacle. — Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026 And he was so reviled by the Hollywood establishment that none other than Frank Sinatra hand-delivered a letter calling for his ouster. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 24 June 2026 Hitler and Stalin are reviled globally and especially in their own nations. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 June 2026 This is a story of such epic scale, yet of such personal and internal conflict, of a man who saved millions of lives, becoming both worshiped as a God and reviled as the devil. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 May 2026

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This is the political bedrock of that, and people are just tired of the massive Hindu-Muslim-who-is-to-be-hated sentiment.

— Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
The guy who hated selling himself turned out to be very good at helping sell everyone else.

— JP Mangalindan, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of hated

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Some parties, including wildfire survivors and some lawmakers that represent fire-scarred districts, had criticized his accountability measures as too loose.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 25 Aug. 2026
But the union representing former Spirit flight attendants has criticized the carrier for selling the data.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of criticized

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But the university’s recent actions in a lawsuit filed by a former student who was attacked on campus during that period appear at odds with that commitment.

— Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 28 Aug. 2026
Not long after Bungalow 8 opened, the World Trade Center was attacked.

— Derek C. Blasberg, Vanity Fair, 28 Aug. 2026

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