Vituperative

/vɪˈt͡ʃuːpɹətɪv/ · adjective

Meaning

Marked by harsh abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing..

Example Sentences

Floris gave the play a vituperative review laced with frequent personal insults.

[…] ten times in a day calling the child of his prayers TRISTRAM!—Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven.

[…] Lady Mary saw as clearly into the bodies, and I believe souls, of every servant who approached her, as if they had been cased in chrystal. And she saw so many foulnesses there, and so many aberrations, that Lady Mary’s language was almost wholly moral and vituperative.

...and there were few words of vituperative abuse furnished by a lady's vocabulary (and even some beyond it) that were not launched upon his head, as a "city tradesman," that of the "puling baby," his wife, his flirting sister and her wittol husband;...

[…] she […] proceeded, without a pause, to pour out a rolling flood of vituperative Latin, in which reproof, indignation, and sarcastic pleasantries followed one another with astonishing volubility.

The injunction also became a pretext for yet another round of vituperative cant from Idaho’s reactionary congressional delegation.

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• more vituperative
• most vituperative

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