as in abusive
marked by harsh insulting language
the type of provocative magazine article that is guaranteed to engender vituperative threats of subscription cancellations
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Recent Examples of vituperative
Juxtaposed with these vituperative remarks are, naturally, shots of Trump seemingly falling asleep while on camera.
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Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
In the years intervening, the poem has remained a lodestar, a contravening presence when, in present day America’s vituperative political landscape, the humanities disciplines and higher education itself has been forced to invoke and defend its own authority.
—Elaine L. Wang
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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
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Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
In the years intervening, the poem has remained a lodestar, a contravening presence when, in present day America’s vituperative political landscape, the humanities disciplines and higher education itself has been forced to invoke and defend its own authority.
—Elaine L. Wang
september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vituperative
Adjective
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The federal agency was tasked with creating and enforcing rules to protect consumers from abusive practices across a range of financial institutions.—
Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Back home, their physically abusive father stalks the shadowy hallways.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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One year, countless outrageous ensembles and quippy one-liners later, viewers still can’t get enough of her.—
Colleen Kratofil,
PEOPLE,
28 Jan. 2026
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The Lakers broke the NBA with that trade a year ago; a repeat event would be pretty outrageous, even for this franchise.—
Broderick Turner,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Jan. 2026
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Many researchers cite those exact words as insulting or wrong when asked about their own terminations.—
STAT Staff,
STAT,
29 Dec. 2025
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With two toddlers and a 10-hour workday for her husband, the advice was more insulting than helpful.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
7 Dec. 2025
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Advertisement Indeed, few of today’s comments about Washington and slavery are more vitriolic than the criticisms levied by his nineteenth-century critics.—
John Garrison Marks,
Time,
23 Jan. 2026
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Trump posted about the tragic news on Monday morning, upsetting many with his vitriolic reaction to Rob's death, in particular.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
15 Dec. 2025
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Not only are hospital CEOs paid obscene amounts of money and the hospitals are sitting on fat cash balances, but NewYork–Presbyterian is guilty of something even more grotesque.—
Voice of the People,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2026
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Some made obscene gestures, and one held up a paper cursing the president.—
Josh Boak,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Vituperative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vituperative. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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