The phrase "a vilification" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of criticizing someone or something in a way that is harsh and abusive.
Example: "The article was nothing more than a vilification of the politician's character, filled with unfounded accusations."
Alternatives: "a denouncement" or "a slander".
In the 1950s, however, he became the object of a vilification campaign and even an assassination attempt.
But while the video triggered fresh death threats against those defamed in it, it was a vilification too far for an unexpectedly wide slice of Israeli society.
And she said: "Go out there!" There seems to be a vilification of older women – Madonna took a lot of flak when she fell at the Brits.
Nathan Despott, the founder of the Brave Network in Melbourne, said the "ex-gay" movement is actually an "ideology, a vilification movement that makes false claims about the LGBTI community and how you become LGBTI".
"Young people who say that they're socialists, or look favourably on socialism, they're thinking about a kind of New Deal government or democracy against markets," said Frances Fox Piven, coauthor of a widely debated radical plan in the 1960s to alleviate poverty and create a basic income, and more recently the target of a vilification campaign by Fox News.
Who else could take Starship Troopers, a right-leaning Robert Heinlein science fiction novel designed to counter liberal theories about nuclear testing, and transform it into a vilification of humanity's cheery willingness to enslave or wipe out anything which does not walk and talk like itself?
ineffable (adj)., "a guaranteed Grade-A term paper" (Matthew Batters, who submits a noun, vilification, "the inexorable spread of Greenwich Village").
"It would be easier to sympathize with him had he not been so ready to join in an earlier vilification against a fellow writer," Rushdie wrote, of le Carre', on November 18th.
It's just degenerated into a vicious vilification of everything the other party stands for".
Although it is clear that science historically has been misused, Cornelius encourages students to move beyond a simple vilification of science.
At first, the government turned to a crude vilification: at one point it even painted Capriles — whose Jewish grandmother survived the Holocaust — as a Nazi.
