Meanings of personal invective in English

Sir, -Hurlers on the ditch can usually criticise without resort to personal invective.

These letters were, however, combined with others from the sterner sex, and some of them were not altogether free from personal invective.

He put away the harshest of the personal invective against Obama and went back to talking about the economy, rash spending, and Iraq.

Hurlers on the ditch usually dish out their criticism without resort to personal invective and especially if they come from the calm of academe.

He was a master of personal invective, and he indulged in it in this instance, rather than discuss the questions raised on their merits.

And so, after much personal invective, furious opposition and ugly rhetoric that appealed to the worst impulses of the American voters, this is Donald(...)

A Reply to personal Invectives and Objections, in 1785.

The latter wrote a satire entitled 'Satiromastix,' in which he replies to Ben Jonson's coarse personal invectives with yet coarser abuse.