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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: slanderous defamation [syn: smear, vilification, malignment]
2: a rude expression intended to offend or hurt; "when a student made a stupid mistake he spared them no abuse"; "they yelled insults at the visiting team" [syn: abuse, insult, revilement, contumely, vilification]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1630 1. the act of vilifying ; abuse 2. an instance of vilifying ; a defamatory utterance

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Vilification Vil`i*fi*ca"tion, n. The act of vilifying or defaming; abuse. --South.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see vilify

Moby Thesaurus

abuse, assailing, assault, attack, berating, bitter words, blackening, calumny, character assassination, contumely, defamation, defamation of character, defilement, denigration, diatribe, execration, hard words, invective, jawing, jeremiad, malicious defamation, muckraking, mudslinging, name-calling, obloquy, onslaught, opprobrium, philippic, rating, revilement, screed, scurrility, smear, smear campaign, smear word, tirade, tongue-lashing, vituperation