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vituperative

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vi·tu·per·a·tive  (v-tpr--tv, -ty-, -p-r-, v-)
adj.
Using, containing, or marked by harshly abusive censure.
vi·tuper·a·tive·ly adv.
vi·tuper·a·tive·ness n.
vituperative [vite-tyew-pra-tiv]
Adjective
bitterly abusive [Latin vituperare to blame]
vituperation n
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Adj.1.vituperativevituperative - marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
scathing
critical - marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; "a critical attitude"


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I was prepared to be persuasive, touching, and hortatory, admonitory and expostulating, if need be vituperative even, indignant and sarcastic; but what the devil does a mentor do when the sinner makes no bones about confessing his sin?
Moon and Sixpence by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
"All right; I won't," he said decisively, realizing that the discussion was in danger of becoming a vituperative, schoolboy argument.
Adventure by London, Jack View in context
The successful Yellow candidate for the borough of Old Topping, perhaps, feels no pursuant meditative hatred toward the Blue editor who consoles his subscribers with vituperative rhetoric against Yellow men who sell their country, and are the demons of private life; but he might not be sorry, if law and opportunity favored, to kick that Blue editor to a deeper shade of his favorite color.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
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