vitriol

The statement followed a week of vitriol in which Takaichi was repeatedly denounced by Chinese officials and told to stay out of what Beijing says are purely Chinese affairs.

It was all a vicious distortion, though an omen of the vitriol that now dominates our politics.

But in the past 10 years, ever since the right to gay marriage was secured in 2015, further divisions have emerged and expanded, along with growing rancor and vitriol.

Stewart was also in the media firing line, given the vitriol that has been directed his way by some of the club's own supporters.

Uncensored vitriol, it turns out, is not a conduit to compromise and consensus.