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vilifying (root: vilify)
THESAURUS
vilifying
abusive, back-biting, backbiting, belittling, bitchy, blackening, blameful, calumniatory, calumnious, catty, censorious, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, damnatory, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derisory, derogative, derogatory, detracting, detractory, disparaging, execrating, execrative, execratory, invective, inveighing, judgmental, libelous, maligning, minimizing, objurgatory, pejorative, priggish, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ridiculing, scandalous, scoffing, scurrile, scurrilous, slanderous, slighting, vituperativeFor further exploring for "vilifying" in Webster Dictionary Online