Bishop's letter was the signal for a campaign of vilification and intimidation unequaled in American history.
They pelted him with ridicule and vilification.
Conchita did not deserve the vilification she had been subjected to.
Barroso has clearly had enough of the vilification, responding robustly and unusually in public while privately answering back to the French President.
Senior officials rarely give interviews, questions and interview requests are often ignored, and the foreign media is sometimes the target of official vilification.