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vituperation
/v(a)ɪˌt(j)upəˈɹeɪʃən/
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What does vituperation mean?
noun
- The act of vituperating; severely blaming or censuring.
- Criticism or invective that is sustained and overly harsh; abuse, severe blame or censure.
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/v(a)ɪˌt(j)upəˈɹeɪʃən/
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In a quarrel, however, they generally confine themselves to vituperation and abuse, and seldom come to blows.
Marxian vituperation of Malthus and his followers is illuminating.
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From one open shop came the sound of blows and vituperation, and just as the officer came up to it a man in a gray coat with a shaven head was flung out violently.
By way of giving me a specimen of its intelligence and feeling, its master set to and rated it soundly, calling it scamp, heathen, thief, and so forth, all through the copious Portuguese vocabulary of vituperation.
The rather too inclusive speech brought down a torrent of vituperation from other quarters upon fair Tess’s unlucky head, particularly from the Queen of Diamonds, who having stood in the relations to d’Urberville that Car had also been suspected of, united with the latter against the common enemy.