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Vituperate   Listen
verb
Vituperate  v. t.  To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Vituperate" Quotes from Famous Books



... Peter Irving, whose younger brother was helping the newly established Chronicle into larger circulation by his Jonathan Oldstyle essays, showed an indisposition as editor of the Burrite paper to vituperate and lampoon in return, William P. Van Ness, the famous and now historic "Aristides," appeared in the political firmament with the suddenness and brilliancy of a comet that dims the light ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander

... misapply, misuse, pervert, desecrate, violate, profane; maltreat, mistreat; revile, reproach, vilify, vituperate, malign, traduce; ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming

... features of the huge Grand Cyrus. Perhaps it may be just necessary to remind readers that "servant" constantly "lover"; that "side" refers to the sheet of paper she is using; and that "abuse" "deceive," not "misuse" or "vituperate." ...
— A Letter Book - Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing • George Saintsbury

... latest point to which his studies reach. As a friend of Caesar he was an enemy of Cicero, and two declamations are extant, the productions of the reign of Claudius, [85] in which these two great men vituperate one another. But no vituperation is found in Sallust's works. There is, indeed, a coldness and reserve, a disinclination to praise the conduct and even the oratory of the consul which bespeaks a mind less noble than Cicero's, [86] But facts are not perverted, ...
— A History of Roman Literature - From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius • Charles Thomas Cruttwell



Words linked to "Vituperate" :   vituperative, revile, abuse, vilify, clapperclaw, rail, blackguard, shout



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