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Prone to utter abuse
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vituperative
Word definitions for vituperative in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vituperative \Vi*tu"per*a*tive\, a. Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive. -- Vi*tu"per*a*tive*ly , adv. Vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities. --B. Jonson.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, from vituperate + -ive . Related: Vituperatively .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A flame is a vituperative email directed at anyone who acts in an uninformed or irritating manner. ▪ Joyce managed to develop and moderate his style of vituperative public rhetoric. ▪ Latter-day liberals have become especially ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing" [syn: scathing , blistering , scalding ]
Usage examples of vituperative.
It is to the fidelity of critical scholars that we owe it that hereafter, except among the ignorant and unintelligent, these two books, now clearly understood, will not again be used to minister to the panic of a Millerite craze, nor to furnish vituperative epithets for antipopery agitators.
You have to queue, and pay good money, to mingle with vituperative interpreters and flashlight-faced Japanese, balls-talking bumblers, vultures, students, loners, pick-ups, the determined samplers and consumers spun off by the thrashing city.
There had been the monologue-there was no other word to describe it--on the correct preparation of "Tex-Mex chili" ("whatever that is," Arrhae heard from the Praetorate benches behind her), together with a vituperative diatribe against those heretics ("ah, religious schism.
He was like a vituperative marionette, a vicious Charlie McCarthy.
His English was exact and uncolloquial, his choice of words often sharp and uncivil, and he was famous for his use of a vituperative tongue in public.