1
as in bitterness
biting sharpness of feeling or expression
a film critic noted for the vitriol and sometimes outright cruelty of his pronouncements
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as in abuse
harsh insulting language
the review was more than just unfavorable—it was loaded with vitriol
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Recent Examples of vitriol
And there was a flood of vitriol directed at them from ordinary Americans.
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Fernanda Figueroa, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
The Sports page should be a place for conversation and debate without the vitriol from other areas.
—Noah Trister, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2026
Schmidt said that the city’s police officers have been vilified for their efforts to restore law and order, a hostility notable against the backdrop of left-wing vitriol toward ICE.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2026
The Los Angeles Dodgers evoked vitriol, for instance, after signing Kyle Tucker to a lucrative contract.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2026
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Fernanda Figueroa, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026
The Sports page should be a place for conversation and debate without the vitriol from other areas.
—Noah Trister, Baltimore Sun, 5 Feb. 2026
Schmidt said that the city’s police officers have been vilified for their efforts to restore law and order, a hostility notable against the backdrop of left-wing vitriol toward ICE.
—Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 4 Feb. 2026
The Los Angeles Dodgers evoked vitriol, for instance, after signing Kyle Tucker to a lucrative contract.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vitriol
Noun
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Anger over the bloodshed now adds to the bitterness over the economy, which has been hollowed out by decades of sanctions, corruption and mismanagement.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
14 Feb. 2026
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The bright fragrant baking spice from Angostura Bitters is replaced with the deep earth of the Cynar whose bitterness brings a constant low hum, like engine noise on an airplane.—
Jeremy Repanich,
Robb Report,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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After surveillance abuses in the 1960s — when federal agencies monitored Americans based on associations and viewpoints — public outrage forced new guardrails into law.—
Bob Shaw,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 Feb. 2026
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Over centuries, the fascination with relics has of course led to abuses, with thefts, forgeries and now online sales all part of their history.—
Nicole Winfield,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Their teenage daughter Josie meets Laura with hostility, while her son Felix remains distant.—
Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
16 Feb. 2026
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Less inviting and contemplative than aggressive and giddy, its priority isn’t to ask the audience to step outside their own perspective and examine how their behavior may contribute to similar hostilities.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
13 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Some of those pushing anti-Jewish invective on the right are opportunists.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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After years of inflammatory social-media posts and antisemitic invective, Kanye West has taken out a full-page ad in The Wall Street Journal that traces his erratic behavior to his 2002 car crash.—
Jazz Monroe,
Pitchfork,
26 Jan. 2026
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The compounds that cause the bitterness in the plant stimulate the production and flow of bile from the liver and gallbladder.—
Cory Martin,
Verywell Health,
9 Feb. 2026
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That’s a police state, and that’s pure authoritarian bile.—
Arizona Republic,
AZCentral.com,
30 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Where Vance seems only to have desired to berate and insult, there was something more urgently coaxing in Rubio’s tone.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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Employees at an El Dorado Hills fast food restaurant went on a one-day strike, after a manager reportedly flung insults and acted unprofessionally to Latino workers.—
Camila Pedrosa,
Sacbee.com,
17 Feb. 2026
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Prosecutors in the case recommended the death penalty as punishment for Yoon, given the severity of his crimes.—
Washington Examiner Staff,
The Washington Examiner,
19 Feb. 2026
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The severity of this person's injuries was not known.—
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
18 Feb. 2026
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Flash forward 92-plus years to Donald Trump’s rally Sunday at New York’s Madison Square Garden, a bleak, lurid festival of racist hate and profane vituperation so vile that even fellow Republicans, who have turned a blind eye to Trump’s character for years, are distancing themselves from the event.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Oct. 2024
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The politicization of the COVID response has only worsened this trend, likely resulting in part from Trump’s vituperation.—
Matt Motta,
Scientific American,
29 Oct. 2024
Cite this Entry
“Vitriol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vitriol. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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