‘no one else attracted such vituperation from him’
‘It is rather sad, therefore, to hear the principal propagandists, and the spokesperson of this administration, reverting to denigration, vituperation, slander and assassination of the character of the Father of the Nation.’
‘Let them be shielded from the shafts of malice, and protected against the venom of personal vituperation.’
‘When people argue, they often resort to vituperation and insults.’
‘Anyone who defies or dares to challenge them is subject to the most awful abuse and vituperation, all of it personal, racist and ideological.’
‘He'll stutter and splutter, and you can follow up with a series of insults steadily escalating in vituperation and profanity.’
‘Both had a well-developed line in personal abuse and vituperation.’
‘I look forward to more of Jones's vituperation!’
‘It seems ludicrous that they have been hung out to dry with such vituperation when in fact they are both dutifully fulfilling the only remaining important royal function there is.’
‘And writing of ‘rookie journalists’ smacks of using vituperation because logical argument is unavailable.’
‘Have our three authors resorted to vituperation then?’
‘Bombard the offices of those Senators with your views, and back up your objections with hard data rather than vituperation.’
‘Even to ask the question is to invite vituperation.’
‘Our parliament is probably no more boring than any other, although we could do with a bit more passion, vituperation and maybe even some mace swinging.’
‘One cannot imagine such crisp vituperation disgorging from the lips of a seemingly unflappable person.’
‘With her pupils dilated to blackness, and spitting vituperation in all directions, the very last thing she seems is sane.’
‘The rest of his vituperation was aimed at the State Department, or ‘state’ as he called it.’
‘You can forget the vows of both parties to forego vituperation in campaigning.’
‘The vituperation and neglect I and the bulk of my fellow modern artists suffer was also the lot of Van Gogh.’
‘Whenever a voice was raised in behalf of deliberation and the recognized maxims of statesmanship, it was howled down in a storm of vituperation and cant.’
Middle English from Old French or Latin, from Latin vituperat- ‘censured, disparaged’, from the verb vituperare, from vitium ‘fault’ + parare ‘prepare’.
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