Term Gallery logo

Meanings of vituperation in English

Portuguese
invectiva
Catalan
vituperi

Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.

        invectiva
        Usage of vituperation in English
        1
        But she finally succumbs under the influence of the following refined vituperation:-
        Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September...
        2
        The literary rancor shown rose to the dignity almost of theological vituperation.
        Fashions in Literature
        3
        She had not looked for any such grave result from her vituperation.
        Unleavened Bread
        4
        His vituperation of the author and his book is coarse and unmeasured.
        The Life of John Bunyan
        5
        No; but studied exclusion from notice, or sophistical evasions and insulting vituperation.
        The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
        6
        Minna Eddy suddenly joined in her torrent of vituperation with the dress-maker's.
        The Debtor: A Novel
        7
        First,-Thenatural spirit of man, which rebels against wholesale vituperation and calumny.
        Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, an...
        8
        A dozen curs from the lodge resented our intrusion with canine vituperation.
        The River and I
        9
        They were revised and raised to greater powers of vituperation and abuse.
        The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
        10
        On this subject there can be no excess of vituperation and severity.
        Sydney Smith
        11
        The last word, explosive, intensive, had strained the limits of her vituperation.
        The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke
        12
        There were shouts and howls, followed by a furious exchange of vituperation.
        Fruitfulness
        13
        She hated Leslie's patronizing insolence more than she hated her open vituperation.
        Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore
        14
        The voice at the other end of the wire exploded into indignant vituperation.
        Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on...
        15
        The mob did not exist for her; she heard neither insult nor vituperation.
        I Will Repay
        16
        And the very clearness of his vision gives terrible power to his vituperation.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 / A Maga...
        About this term
        More collocations
        Translations for vituperation
        Vituperation through the time
        Vituperation across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common