vituperate

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

Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

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

As for character, she is, like any other beauty, something vituperated; nay, some carry their envy so far as to call it cracked!

From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper

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

He said a word of sympathy for the universally vituperated Jacobins of the Mountain, because through thick veils of national prejudice and misrepresentation, he felt the impossibility of the Gironde.

From The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

But all the other real and systematic cynicisms of our journalism pass without being vituperated and even without being known—the financial motives of policy, the misleading posters, the suppression of just letters of complaint.

From All Things Considered by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

He would undoubtedly have raised a good deal of temporary excitement by unearthing abuses, and by vituperating persons whom he disliked.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by John Charles Dent

In the meantime the infant whom he was holding all the time in his arms very tenderly whilst he was vituperating, shut its eyes languidly; a sign of repletion.

From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo

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

Interfering with institutions, ruining reputation, blasting bulwarks, patronizing poachers, vituperating venerated—' 'Quite true,' cried Aunt Catherine, with spirit.

From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge

He disappeared down the basement steps, and in another minute a harsh voice apparently vituperating him rose up, and when he rejoined his comrade his face was redder than ever.

From Delilah of the Snows by Harold Bindloss