vituperated

past tense of vituperate

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vituperated
Verb
  • Tonges, who before Sunday’s game had never caught a regular-season pass, attacked the ball and gave San Francisco the lead.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The occurrences grew more aggressive over time, with the Smurls' 75-pound German shepherd getting slammed into a wall and Jack getting attacked while praying.
    Jessica Sager, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • An evening bike ride on a rural road turned fatal in a most unusual way, when the cyclist slammed into a deer in the dark, according to the North Carolina Highway Patrol.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Supporters of Mangione have slammed Shein for using his likeness while his critics have also described the photo as a new low.
    Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Family matriarch Donna Adelson was scolded by a judge Thursday for weeping in the courtroom after being convicted of orchestrating a 2014 murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, a prominent Florida State University law professor.
    Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Lox's reaction to being scolded.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The court ruled that Particle plausibly alleged Epic abused its dominance in electronic health records to undermine competition in the payer platform market so that those claims will move forward into discovery.
    David Chou, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The 7-year-old detailed abuse by her father and stepmother, whose 6-year-old daughter was also allegedly being abused, according to the court documents.
    Mike Stunson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Vituperated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vituperated. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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