Crossword clues for vituperative
vituperative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1727, from vituperate + -ive. Related: Vituperatively.
Wiktionary
a. marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing
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.