vituperative

  • 11vituperative — UK [vaɪˈtjuːp(ə)rətɪv] / US [vɪˈtupəˌreɪtɪv] / US [vaɪˈtupəˌreɪtɪv] adjective very formal full of cruel angry criticisms and insults vituperative comments …

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  • 12vituperative — adjective marked by harshly abusive criticism his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists her vituperative railing • Syn: ↑scathing • Similar to: ↑critical • Derivationally related forms: ↑vitupera …

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  • 13vituperative — adjective Date: 1727 uttering or given to censure ; containing or characterized by verbal abuse • vituperatively adverb …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 14vituperative — Synonyms and related words: Rabelaisian, abusive, acid, belittling, biting, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, calumniatory, calumnious, castigatory, censorious, comminatory, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, critical, cursing, damnatory …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 15vituperative — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. insulting, trenchant, censorious; see critical 2 , severe 1 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by verbal abuse: abusive, contumelious, invective, opprobrious, scurrilous. See ATTACK …

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  • 16vituperative — adj. of or characterized by vituperation, with harsh condemnationvi tu·per·a·tive || vaɪtuːpÉ™reɪtɪv /vɪtjuːpÉ™rÉ™tɪv …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 17vituperative — [vɪ tju:p(ə)rətɪv, vʌɪ ] adjective bitter and abusive …

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  • 18vituperative — a. Abusive, reproachful, scolding, scurrilous, opprobrious, condemnatory, damnatory, contemptuous, insulting …

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  • 19vituperative — adjective formal full of angry and cruel criticism …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 20vituperative — adj 1. censorious, reproachful, denunciatory, damnatory, objurgatory, imprecatory, fulminatory, execratory, animadversional, commina tory, Obs. exprobratory; abusive, injurious, harsh, virulent, scurrilous, withering, caustic, corrosive;… …

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