If you are vilified by someone, they say or write very unpleasant things about you, so that people will have a low opinion of you. The agency has been vilified by some doctors for being unnecessarily slow to approve life-saving drugs He was vilified, hounded, and forced into exile by the FBI. + vilification vili·fi·ca·tion Clare did not deserve the vilification she had been subjected to. to say or write bad things about someone or something vilify sb/sth for (doing) sth (vilificare , from vilis ( VILE) + facere )