Definitionadj. marked by harshly abusive criticism
Last update: July 20, 2015
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He became more vituperative as he realized that we were not going to grant him his wish. [Please select]
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Rushdie's novel had vituperative reviews. [Please select]
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After a dedicatory epistle to Alexander (chap. I) the opening of the treatise itself (chap. 2) is as follows: - " There are three genera of political speeches; one deliberative, one declamatory, one forensic: their species are seven; hortative, dissuasive, laudatory, vituperative, accusatory, defensive, critical." [adjective]
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5) Wade and Davis published in the New York Tribune the famous "Wade-Davis Manifesto," a vituperative document impugning the President's honesty of purpose and attacking his leadership. As long as President Johnson promised severe treatment of the conquered South, Wade supported him, but when the President definitively adopted the more lenient policy of his predecessor, Wade became one of his most bitter and uncompromising opponents. [adjective]
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After a dedicatory epistle to Alexander (chap. I) the opening of the treatise itself (chap. 2) is as follows: - " There are three genera of political speeches; one deliberative, one declamatory, one forensic: their species are seven; hortative, dissuasive, laudatory, vituperative, accusatory, defensive, critical." [Please select]
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He delivered vituperative, even obscene sermons, which may still be read in his collected works. [Please select]
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He expends a wealth of vituperative Latin which makes us tremble, till we remember that it is put in motion to crush an insect. [Please select]
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It is not his toil, but his hobby, passion, vice, monomania--any vituperative epithet you like to bestow on it. [Please select]
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Probably it was because she found in her one who would submit meekly to any amount of contradiction, and listen patiently to any amount of vituperative declamation. [Please select]
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After much vituperative language not worth repeating, Freeman wrote in The Saturday Review for the 5th of February, 1870, these genial words, "As it is, there is nothing to be done but to catch Mr." [Please select]
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