They reviled and mocked him, which caused him distress. Magic is widely feared and reviled, and not without reason. He impudently reviled me, just as if he regarded me as obnoxious to him. Though well-liked in Kentucky, he was reviled by many in the North as a traitor. She was widely reviled in the press as the murderer of her children. Members attained a degree of public notoriety by cursing those who reviled their faith. Considering these heretical, he reviled them with curses. Johnson asserted that Macbeth, though esteemed for his military bravery, is wholly reviled. It was reviled by critics and performed poorly at the box office. The people reviled the king in popular protest, and finally celebrated his death. At its outset, UHC was reviled as a "populist" policy. The film was critically reviled and flopped commercially. During his lifetime, Bacon was equally reviled and acclaimed. Keitel was reviled among his military colleagues as Hitler's habitual "yes-man". They are reviled in texts written centuries later, particularly by Tamil Hindu scholars.