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vi·tu·per·a·tive

(vī-to͞o′pər-ə-tĭv, -tyo͞o′-, -pə-rā′-, vĭ-)

adj.

Using, containing, or marked by harshly critical or irate language.

vi·tu′per·a·tive·ly adv.

vi·tu′per·a·tive·ness n.

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vi•tu•per•a•tive

(vaɪˈtu pər ə tɪv, -pəˌreɪ tɪv, -ˈtyu-, vɪ-)

adj.

given to, characterized by, or of the nature of vituperation.

[1720–30]

vi•tu′per•a•tive•ly, adv.

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Adj.

vituperative - 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"

vituperative

adjective abusive, vitriolic, virulent, insulting, harsh, withering, malign, belittling, sardonic, derogatory, scurrilous, defamatory, censorious, opprobrious, denunciatory, calumniatory one of journalism's most vituperative critics

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vituperative

adjective

Of, relating to, or characterized by verbal abuse:

abusive, contumelious, invective, opprobrious, scurrilous.

Translations

offensivo

dadlendeklandrendekritiserendelastendeskjellende

/potępiający/

vituperative

[vɪˈtjuːpərətɪv] ADJ (frm) → injurioso

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

vituperative

adj (form) language → schmähend (geh); criticism, remark, attack, abuse → beißend; person → scharfzüngig; vituperative speech → Schmährede f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

vituperative

[vɪˈtjuːp/ərətɪv] adj (frm) (person) → offensivo/a; (speech) → ingiurioso/a

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"All right; I won't," he said decisively, realizing that the discussion was in danger of becoming a vituperative, schoolboy argument.

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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?

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His predecessor used to hang out his washing on the tombstones to dry, but then he was a person entirely lost to all sense of decency, and had finally to be removed, preaching a farewell sermon of a most vituperative description, and hurling invective at the Man of Wrath, who sat up in his box drinking in every word and enjoying himself thoroughly.

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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.

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She is sardonic, vulnerable and vituperative. The viper in her bosom is young Eve Harrington, an excellent Lily James, who inveigles her way into Margot's circle.