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Meanings of vituperative in English

Marked by harshly abusive criticism.

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Usage of vituperative in English
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For the rest, the heresiarch had a mighty flow of vituperative speech.
Demos
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Since his inauguration, Stanton had been one of his most vituperative critics.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
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He had never been wittier, never more convincing, never so magnificently vituperative.
Better Dead
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Whereupon the girl grew vituperative in two languages, and made off.
In the Year of Jubilee
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Ritter's contempt is so vituperative that it begins to look excessive.
The Guardian
6
We didn't want an Ann Richards, vituperative, lashing kind of speech.
The bridge: the life and rise of barack obama
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No vituperative epithet was strong enough to fling at my head.
Native Life in South Africa / Before and Since the European War ...
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Elsie might have been conducting a vituperative monologue across the alley.
A Stir of Echoes
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He was Jesuit and atheist as it suited the turn of any vituperative polemist.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
10
Or be bitter or vituperative just because they are swine.
The Guardian
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He was like a vituperative marionette, a vicious Charlie McCarthy.
Death Trance
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Louder and louder grew the vituperative roar of the Face.
Android Karenina
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Words floated outward from that mouth, boldface and italicized, swirling like a vituperative cyclone.
Existence
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As so often with the most vituperative pamphleteers, Frum is in person genial and conciliatory.
The Guardian
15
He delivered vituperative, even obscene sermons, which may still be read in his collected works.
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dor...
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A more vituperative female Rebel I have never seen.
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. /...
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