revile [riváil] (11) vt formal [しばしば受身] (怒り・嫌悪をこめて)非難する (for)
語源 (Longman)
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : reviler, from vil, from Latin vilis 'worthless']
古フランス語 reviler ← vil ← ラテン語 vilis 「価値のない」
意味 (Oxford Advanced Learner's)
[usually passive] revile somebody (for something/for doing something) (formal) to criticize somebody/something in a way that shows how much you dislike them
「どれだけ嫌っているかを示して非難する」
例文 (Longman)
▪ Faulkner's neighbors both loved and reviled him in the same breath.
▪ Another Bloomsbury hallmark was witty conversation and upper-class snobbery, which has made Bloomsbury reviled in some circles.
▪ It was originally reviled, as the artists intended, for its rejection of conventional values of art and society.
▪ Old-fashioned church practices, with foot-stamping and arm-waving, were reviled.
▪ Why should people jump at the chance to become a member of a minority so despised and reviled in so many quarters?
類義語
「非難する」の類義語は、chastise の後で扱いました