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n. - One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel.

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  • So I like to think, at least when it really counts, that I'm a circumspect champion and vilifier of triangles.
  • The reality seems to be that you are an insulting bully, a narrow-minded bigot and an arrogant religious vilifier.
  • Perhaps no vilifier of Hillary Clinton traipses across the footlights with a bigger satchel of calumnies than Andrew Sullivan, who diagnosed Mrs. Clinton as “the...
  • One night not long ago, over dinner with ten executives in the finance industry, I heard the president described as 'hostile to business,' 'anti-wealth,' and 'anti-capitalism';...
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