Vilify vs Degrade - What's the difference?
vilify | degrade | Related terms |
To say defamatory things about someone or something.
To belittle through speech; to put down.
To lower in value or social position.
* Palfrey
To reduce in quality or purity.
(geology) To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.
Vilify is a related term of degrade.
As verbs the difference between vilify and degrade
is that vilify is to say defamatory things about someone or something while degrade is .vilify
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* (say defamatory things about) assail, criticize, decry, denounce, libel, slander * berate * See alsodegrade
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(degrad)- Fred degrades himself by his behaviour.
- Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar.
- The DNA sample has degraded .