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Meanings of invective in anglès
Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.
rus
инвектива Abusive, reproachful, or venomous language used to express blame or censure.
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Sinònims
Examples for "vitriol"
Examples for "vitriol"
1
First of all, I was really surprised by the level of vitriol.
2
Solution of salt and of blue vitriol in the matter of heat.
3
Councillors, think and keep your vitriol and language to a decent level.
4
Could this vitriol eventually be responsible for a Zimbabwe-style turn of events?
5
I warn you fairly: you will find me vitriol in the house.
1
But she finally succumbs under the influence of the following refined vituperation:-
2
The literary rancor shown rose to the dignity almost of theological vituperation.
3
She had not looked for any such grave result from her vituperation.
4
His vituperation of the author and his book is coarse and unmeasured.
5
No; but studied exclusion from notice, or sophistical evasions and insulting vituperation.
Usage of invective in anglès
1
The article attacked the Grand Duke and the Court with low invective.
2
In the latter, a wicked woman is denounced with the wildest invective.
3
Strickland employed not the rapier of sarcasm but the bludgeon of invective.
4
Things only really got going when he burst into invective and profanity.
5
He was terrible in invective, matchless at repartee, and insensible to fear.
6
Few of us enjoy a blitzkrieg of obscene invective from perfect strangers.
7
New combinations of opposition were organized, and the newspapers teemed with invective.
8
He mounted the tribune, and uttered a long invective on his opponents.
9
He accordingly turned round and poured forth a perfect flood of invective.
10
His speech contained one passage of scathing invective addressed to Mr. Disraeli.
11
She abused me right royally, and her power of invective was superb.
12
I found the invective that unfolded before my eyes hard to believe.
13
He was instantly spotted and pinned down beneath a barrage of invective.
14
There can be no question but that Walpole's invective precipitated the collapse.
15
Socola listened to Barton's fierce, unreasoning invective with a sense of dread.
16
Could I permit myself such latitude of invective as he has adopted?
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Invective through the time
Invective across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common