vituperative
adjective
formal uk
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Meaning of vituperative in English
Examples of vituperative
vituperative
Although fewer in numbers and not as vituperative as former ones, 1848 slurs nevertheless carried over some previous gendered mudslinging.
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After a series of efforts in the 1950s and 1960s, they eventually gave up in the wake of vituperative and inconclusive debates.
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But it was not just this criticism that marked the review: far more striking was the article's vituperative tone.
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Conspiracy theories abound; competing camps have produced their own literature, symposia and vituperative fervour.
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The more inaccurate he became the more vehement and vituperative he became.
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I have on previous occasions been charged with being vituperative in dealing with colonial matters.
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I have not sought to compete with the vituperative hysteria of some of the disputants.
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I have not been vituperative on this issue.
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They have spent the whole of their time and have used all their endeavours in the most vituperative denunciation it is possible for human language to concoct.
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I used the words "genially vituperative".
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My doctor is particularly vituperative about this.
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For me, in many ways, the science no longer matters because discussions about the science have become so vituperative and politicized.
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