Adjective : vituperative remarks. From Dictionary.com.
The conviction shared by most of the book's early critics, whether reflective or vituperative, is of the impropriety of the subject. From Wordnik.com. [Paley, "Apocalypse Without Millennium"] Reference
I would hope that anyone else responding to Palomares 'posting would stick to the subject rather than engage in vituperative rejoinder. From Wordnik.com. [Gay life in Mexico] Reference
Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference
He'd never used that kind of vituperative language with her. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air] Reference
First of all, I had to look up "vituperative" to see what you meant. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-War Protest on 29 North at cvillenews.com] Reference
I kinda' had a hint as to what "vituperative" meant, but only from from context. From Wordnik.com. [Vituperative, Abstemious, Amaneunsis] Reference
And we've got to keep it focused on the issues and away from the kind of vituperative attacks we've seen. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 21, 2007] Reference
This is a very poor piece Mr Hill - you describe Mr Gilligan as 'vituperative' but bend over backwards to justify Rahman. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
You've seen her, you know how vituperative she can be. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 26, 2003] Reference
No terms were too vituperative to denounce the enormity. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked] Reference
You've seen her and you know how vituperative she could be. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 20, 2005] Reference
Doesn't that temper them being vituperative, you would think?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Recount Goes On, Rhetoric Goes Up as Election 2000 Heads to Court - November 18, 2000] Reference
You mention that the jokes were getting to be more vituperative. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Recount Goes On, Rhetoric Goes Up as Election 2000 Heads to Court - November 18, 2000] Reference
I was benevolently commended by a vituperative ink-slinger, Daniel. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
KING: Why has this campaign, do you think, gotten so vituperative?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: A Look Back at President George Bush in His Own Words - January 27, 2001] Reference
He is a man given to vituperative comments toward the United States. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005] Reference
KING: Why do you think Dominick Dunne has been so vituperative on this?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 24, 2003] Reference
KING: Richard Shenkman, is this as vituperative as it gets historically?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Should Al Gore Concede Florida and the Election? - November 28, 2000] Reference
His vituperative vocabulary seemed unlimited, inexhaustible, and cumulative. From Wordnik.com. [Reveries of a Schoolmaster] Reference
And now you hear a lot more anger and vituperative comments, a lot more bitterness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008] Reference
Do you think when the mood gets this partisan and this vituperative that can happen?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Florida Recount Continues, Along With Legal Maneuvering - November 14, 2000] Reference
So, she uses word like unruly, disobedient, and vituperative to describe the children. From Wordnik.com. [New Book Collects Copp Children Stories] Reference
No home, no person is too sacred for the vituperative tongues of these scandal-mongers. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Why has this campaign -- and you've been through a lot of them -- been so vituperative?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2004] Reference
After listening to his vituperative eloquence I would ride on in a hopeful frame of mind. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
Michelle was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Debates] Reference
Clay, indignant at the apparent success of Adams, and vituperative over the tactics of Calhoun. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
Michelle Obama was shaken by the vituperative crowds and the hot rhetoric from the GOP candidates. From Wordnik.com. [Hackers and Spending Sprees] Reference
KING: Lindsey, why is this -- before we take some calls, Lindsey, why is this race so vituperative?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2004] Reference
It's a standard, well-known incumbent's charge against a challenger-only in especially vituperative form. From Wordnik.com. [How To Run Against Perot] Reference
But The New York Times and its vituperative columnist were not alone in taking the Germans to the woodshed. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog Days] Reference
The Revolutionary war was the most vituperative of all -- filled with absolute and total uncontrollable anger. From Wordnik.com. ['We Need to Heal'] Reference
His vituperative personal attacks on a judicial nominee -- Missouri state court Judge Ronnie White -- are well known. From Wordnik.com. [Right From The Start] Reference
Southern Orthodox Christianity (as opposed to the virulent and vituperative Byzantine species) has always been pragmatic. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
But the Celtic vocabulary, particularly rich in expletives, failed to meet the ever-growing vituperative wants of the villagers. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
"He tries to be reasonable, but his colors are soon shown when he breaks down into vituperative language like a frustrated child.". From Wordnik.com. [The Great Gray Plague] Reference
Renaissance politician, whose characteristics are expounded with characteristically vituperative energy by Bussy in III, ii, 439-94. From Wordnik.com. [Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois] Reference
We would not have dreamed of running a personal and vituperative commercial that would cast aspersions on the integrity of our opponent. From Wordnik.com. ['We Need to Heal'] Reference
Mr. Foote blew clouds of vituperative gas at President and Cabinet; still Mr. Davis retained, in council and field, the men he had chosen. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
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