Wes Tancred (Richard Egan) is publicly vilified after killing a famous gunslinger who was a public hero.

Muhammad Ali was publicly vilified for his refusal to be conscripted into the U.S. military.

Objections were raised to the excavation of the City of David in Jerusalem, for which project director Yigal Shiloh was publicly vilified.

The clergy were publicly vilified and humiliated, their vestments taken and desecrated.

No doubt if anyone had overheard them, Ridgeway would have been publicly vilified, perhaps even attacked.

Banting was publicly vilified for advancing a low-carbohydrate diet and false rumours were spread, claiming his diet had destroyed his health.

The mother was publicly vilified, and the father of the child, if he was ever identified, was severely punished.

"My client would not have been publicly vilified."

If dissenting opinions are publicly vilified by the news media, the conditions that make free speech and dissent possible will wither.

And yet, a decade after the Sheikh was publicly vilified as a terrorist conspirator, Refai continued to embrace him.