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revile

On-Yomi: ベツ — Kun-Yomi: ないがしろ、なみ.する、くらい、さげす.む

Koohii stories:

1) [radical_tyro] 20-6-2008(75): They gays were reviled by society, so they put flowers above their eyes and marched around.

2) [Katsuo] 1-1-2010(27): Note: Whether you see a "drop" or a "one" in the bottom left of 蔑 depends on the font your computer is using at the time. Newer fonts prefer the "one".

3) [chibimizuno] 26-7-2009(23): The gay pride parade (flowers + march) was going smoothly until it caught the eye of the religious right, who reviled the demonstration so much that they tried to interrupt it.

4) [abaddon] 17-5-2008(10): Flower, eye, march: After the Trojans had defeated the cyclops, they planted flowers in his only eye (blinding him) and then marched him back to Troy to be marched around and reviled by the citizens.

5) [astridtops] 2-2-2007(7): In Northern Ireland, bitter religious groups revile their opponents by marching defiantly under their very eye, holding flowers that symbolize their beliefs.

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