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vituperous
adjective as in scurrilous
adjective as in truculent
Weak matches
- abusive
- aggressive
- antagonistic
- bad-tempered
- barbarous
- bellicose
- browbeating
- brutal
- bullying
- caustic
- combative
- contentious
- contumelious
- cowing
- cross
- defiant
- ferocious
- fierce
- frightening
- harsh
- hostile
- inhuman
- inhumane
- intimidating
- invective
- mean
- militant
- mordacious
- mordant
- obstreperous
- opprobrious
- ornery
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- rude
- savage
- scathing
- scrappy
- scurrilous
- sharp
- sullen
- terrifying
- terrorizing
- trenchant
- violent
- vituperative
Example Sentences
“This will be a moment when people around the world will be seeing the footballers they love that their whole nations are sort of pulling for suddenly being open to the most vituperous abuse on platforms that have a terrible track record of enforcing their rules on racism,” said Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
Not since the early nineteen-eighties, when much of Latin America was in the grip of anti-Communist dictators who formed a cabal to kill and disappear the hemisphere’s leftists, has a politician emerged with such a vituperous discourse.
According to Dunn Marsh, organizing this exhibition was a financial challenge for the small institution, however, “it is the right thing to do for this photographer, who richly deserves more solo exhibitions; for our region, one that is home to many veterans; and at this time — the 15th anniversary of 9/11, and a vituperous, presidential election year.”
Even Justice Antonin Scalia, nobody’s minimalist and King’s vituperous dissenter, has made his peace with the New Deal’s constitutional warping and refuses to abandon doctrines, like “substantive due process,” that he himself rhetorically assails.
It’s caused by the harsh, vituperous political culture in which members are on edge about appearing even cordial with colleagues with whom they disagree. The former RNC chair Frank Fahrenkopf, whose biography I am working on, often tells me the root of the problem is that most members go home most weekends and thus don’t bother to socialize or get to know their philosophical sparring partners as human beings.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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