vituperative

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vituperative - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Vituperative \Vi*tu"per*a*tive\, a.
     Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by,
     abuse; scolding; abusive. -- Vi*tu"per*a*tive*ly, adv.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Vituperative appellations derived from their real or
           supposed ill qualities.                  --B. Jonson.
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vituperative - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  vituperative
      adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing
             remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative
             railing" [syn: scathing, vituperative]

vituperative - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "vituperative":
     Rabelaisian, abusive, acid, belittling, biting, blackening,
     blameful, blasphemous, calumniatory, calumnious, castigatory,
     censorious, comminatory, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious,
     critical, cursing, damnatory, damning, defamatory, denunciatory,
     deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive,
     derogatory, detractory, dirty, disparaging, dysphemistic,
     epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrating,
     execrative, execratory, foul, fulminatory, harsh, imprecatory,
     insulting, invective, inveighing, judgmental, maledictory, malign,
     objurgatory, obscene, opprobrious, priggish, profane, railing, raw,
     reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ribald, ridiculing, risque,
     sarcastic, sardonic, scatologic, scoffing, scolding, scornful,
     scurrile, scurrilous, severe, slanderous, truculent, vile,
     vilifying, withering