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vituperate

[vahy-too-puh-rayt, -tyoo-, vi-] / vaɪˈtu pəˌreɪt, -ˈtju-, vɪ- /


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Mr. Youngkin’s comment about Mr. Vance more or less obliges him not to vituperate the vice president in the usual way of presidential primaries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026

They vituperate even though what she and Sanders have said is, well, true.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2017

Over the next dozen years, he would vituperate again and again against Roosevelt's seemingly mystical ability to direct the national conversation.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2011

And may I add a word of deep appreciation for the highly intelligent letter of Mr. Frank Vincent Waddy, on the subject of our vituperate critic, Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse.

From Time Magazine Archive

His only occupation during the rapid drive was to vituperate his valet, the curse of his life, he said.

From Nuttie's Father by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Nonetheless his St. Denis working class constituents have twice more re-elected him although he was opposed and vituperated by Communist candidates.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Berlioz some years later vituperated him from quite another point of view.

From The Great Musicians: Rossini and His School by Henry Sutherland Edwards

"At Tonbridge!" said I, whereupon the postillion vituperated the rain and wind, chirruped to his horses, and the chaise rolled away into the tempestuous dark.

From Peregrine's Progress by Jeffery Farnol

A speech from the poorer sort of people, which always indicates that the party vituperated is a gentleman.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Idolized while victorious, he was vituperated with corresponding violence the instant fortune showed signs of wavering in her fidelity.

From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 by Various

The intolerable injustice of vituperating the bribed to an assembly of bribers, has goaded their sense of justice beyond endurance.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Mamie Dickens

Now, this class of individuals entertain a mortal hatred for ‘Lavengro’ and its writer, and never lose an opportunity of vituperating both. 

From The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' by John Sampson

Mother.—"Now do be rational, why don't you listen to what I say, instead of vituperating in this manner?"

From Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Julia de Winton

Now, this class of individuals entertain a mortal hatred for p. 355Lavengro and its writer, and never lose an opportunity of vituperating both. 

From The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" by Theodore Watts-Dunton

In 1879 I heard the Irish members in the House of Commons vituperating him after a manner that subsequently became unpleasantly familiar, but was then regarded as a gross breach of the conventions of debate.

From The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent by Sir Home Gordon, Bart.


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