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vitriolic
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Word definitions for vitriolic in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from French vitriolique (16c.) or from vitriol + -ic . Figurative sense "biting, caustic, very severe" is by 1841.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vitriolic \Vit`ri*ol"ic\, a. [Cf. F. vitriolique.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol . Biting, bitter or caustic; having or expressing strong and unpleasantly negative ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN attack ▪ Similarly excessive were de Gaulle's vitriolic attacks on the politicians. ▪ Cope's own sleevenotes have also caused outrage, containing vitriolic attacks on Axl Rose and U2, among others. ▪ There is an ...
Usage examples of vitriolic.
I have to watch what goes into the media, or vitriolic letters can fly from the Streit and Manischewitz families.
In a misguided attempt to stir up old colonial animosities toward the French, the commissioners published a vitriolic attack on America’s new allies and also appealed over the heads of the Congress to the population at large.
The jar may then be half filled with blue vitriol to which some water and vitriolic acid is added until the fluid reaches the buttercup.
He sat at it for a while and tried to compose a new entry for the Guide on the subject of Vogons but couldn't think of anything vitriolic enough so he gave that up too, wrapped a robe round himself and went for a walk to the bridge.
She read a movie review full of vicious ipse dixit criticism of the director and screenwriter, questioning their very right to create, and then turned to a woman columnist's equally vitriolic attack on a novelist, none of it genuine criticism, merely venom, and she threw the paper in a trash can.
Abu Simbel laughs at minstrels singing vicious satires, vitriolic odes commissioned by one chief against another, by one tribe against its neighbour.
Among his inventions of this character, was the modern process of manufacturing vitriolic acid in leaden vessels in large quantities, instead of in glass vessels in small quantities as formerly practised.