vitriolic

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vitriolic
Adjective
  • The decision sparked a firestorm on social media — where much of the debate around these issues is taking place — and Jackson-Smith was the target of abusive and threatening comments from both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine supporters.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Aug. 2025
  • At the same time, Mahoney was dealing with legal battles against her abusive ex-boyfriend.
    Victoria Elena Valenzuela, USA Today, 2 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The result was viciously insulting, not the sort of thing anyone would want to read about themselves.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 18 July 2025
  • To not even reach 10 percent is insulting to all involved and indicates how much needs to change, which is exactly what a group of industry power players are attempting to do in Nashville.
    Steve Baltin, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • This game lets fans of telenovelas take on the outrageous characters and melodramatic plot twists to tell memorable stories.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Yes, Trump had already made certain concessions in advance, by preemptively walking back his outrageous opening gambit in the tariff war when markets rebelled against the policy.
    Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Even the company’s most vituperative detractors acknowledge its engineering genius and applaud its success in driving down launch expenses (unlike many defense contractors, SpaceX largely eats the cost of its failures).
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 28 July 2025
  • Transcripts of the depositions conducted by utility lawyers were made public Friday in Superior Court and hundreds of pages of questions and answers suggest questions about who contributed what to the vituperative oped may never be answered to everyone’s satisfaction.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • The explosion of sports betting might not be the reason for the increase in personal invective being spewed at games.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • Between the time the former Marine Soto was indicted in 2018 and sentenced in 2020, then-President Donald Trump offered up vitriolic invective to Mexican officials.
    Sean Campbell, The Conversation, 23 May 2025
Adjective
  • To authenticate Trump's note and the obscene drawing that accompanied it, Journal reporters claim to have seen the album and talked to people knowledgeable about it.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Guests will enjoy the experience free from disruptive behavior, foul language, obscene gestures, fighting, unruly conduct or inconsiderate actions.
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 9 Aug. 2025
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“Vitriolic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vitriolic. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.

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