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Example sentences for "revile"

Lexicographically close words:
reviewed; reviewer; reviewers; reviewing; reviews; reviled; revilers; reviles; reviling; revilings
  1. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

  2. Hereupon the housekeeper began to curse and revile my child loudly, who heeded her not, but stepped out at the door toward the cart, where there stood so many people that nought could be seen save head against head.

  3. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

  4. It is just then, on the contrary, that their reward comes nigh: when men revile them and persecute them, then they may know that they are blessed.

  5. She is a very religious little lady, and was much relieved when I assured her it was not part of my daily devotions to curse the Prophet, and revile the noble Koran.

  6. And he began to revile the eunuch, who could make him no answer, because his mistress had charged him to do Zoulmekan no violence nor bring him, save of his free will, and if he would not come, to give him the thousand dinars.

  7. He had a meeting with Táhirih and abruptly, without asking a single question, began to curse, mock and revile her.

  8. If the gods have giv'n him the great style Of ablest soldier, made they that his licence to revile Men with vile language?

  9. Revile not with words him whom thou hast to correct with deeds; the punishment which the unhappy wretch is doomed to suffer is sufficient, without the addition of abusive language.

  10. Revile not the idols which they invoke besides GOD, lest they maliciously revile GOD, without knowledge.

  11. If thou wilt let them alone in their idolatry and other wicked practices, they will cease to revile and persecute thee.

  12. In the impossibility of criminating living Jesuits, their worst enemies could only revile the dead.

  13. Mine enemies revile me all the day long: and they that are mad upon me are sworn together against me.

  14. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake.

  15. Stand by a stone and revile it, and what will you gain?

  16. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

  17. The bystanders seemed to have been startled by the boldness of St. Paul's rebuke, for they said to him, 'Dost thou revile the high priest of God?

  18. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely for My sake.

  19. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for My sake.

  20. But wherever a monastery was built roads were made, marshes drained, and the whole country rose in civilisation, while for the learning of the nineteenth century to revile monastic lore is for the oak to revile the acorn from which it sprang.

  21. God grant we may learn, when we are reviled, not to revile again!

  22. They dare not revile a general at the head of his army.

  23. So the Syrian went from him saying in himself, "Allah disappoint this fellow, why did he not give me the ass at first and then he had not had occasion to abuse and curse himself and to revile me also.

  24. On this wise he continued to chide and revile them unknowing that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid stood before him, and presently the Prince of True Believers made reply, "We be folk of Bassorah.

  25. An uncivil answer from a son to a father, from an obliged person to a benefactor, is a greater indecency than if an enemy should storm his house or revile him to his head.

  26. And did not she herself revile me there" Shak.

  27. To shout at, to utter shouts at; to deride or revile with shouts.

  28. Beware how you revile the Magistrates; You may be whipped for that.

  29. Blessed are ye when men shall persecute you, And shall revile you, and shall say against you All manner of evil falsely for my sake!

  30. When your beloved mother died I heard you, even you, revile the gods for their cruelty; others call them kind.

  31. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you.

  32. I do not intend to answer railing with railing, nor do I wish to revile those by whom we are reviled.

  33. But we will not abuse our traducers, nor revile them because they revile us.

  34. Hence this caution to the Elders of the Church that they should not contend against other churches, make war upon their tenets, or revile even the revilers.

  35. Him the son of Aeson with prudence addressed: "Good friend, assuredly with an evil word didst thou revile me, saying before them all that I was the wronger of a kindly man.

  36. It is the fashion to revile the automobilist as a hurried traveller, but he at least gets a sniff of the countryside en route which the others do not.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revile" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; attack; berate; besmirch; bespatter; blacken; blaspheme; chaff; chew; come; damn; defile; denounce; epithet; execrate; fleer; flout; gibe; jape; jaw; jeer; lace; malign; mock; praise; rag; rail; rally; rate; rave; rebuke; revile; scoff; scold; scout; slam; smear; smirch; sneer; soil; stigmatize; swipe; tarnish; taunt; twit; upbraid; vilify; wig