vitriolic

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Vitriolic complaints from residents that road builders planned to link the road to the Turnpike and turn it into a major thoroughfare persuaded chastened officials to block it off years ago.

From Washington Times • Apr. 5, 2015

Vitriolic statements about sports teams, for example, predates the blog age, and political comments by anonymous writers is as old as the republic, back then it was in sheets called “Broadsides” and such….

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2010

Vitriolic disputes have broken out between survivors and the families of those who died, with allegations of cowardice sprayed on walls and lives ruined by whispering campaigns.

From Time Magazine Archive

The original favorite was Ogden Phipps's Vitriolic, last year's two-year-old champion and winner of $429,896, who has since developed weak knees and will sit out the race.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vitriolic acid, even concentrated and boiling, has but little effect upon bismuth; but the nitrous acid acts upon it with the greatest rapidity and violence, producing much nitrous air, mixed with phlogisticated nitrous vapour.

From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph