vitriolic
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Vitriolic complaints from residents that road builders planned to link the road to the Turnpike and turn it into a major thoroughfare persuaded chastened officials to block it off years ago.
From Washington Times • Apr. 5, 2015
Vitriolic statements about sports teams, for example, predates the blog age, and political comments by anonymous writers is as old as the republic, back then it was in sheets called “Broadsides” and such….
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2010
The original favorite was Ogden Phipps's Vitriolic, last year's two-year-old champion and winner of $429,896, who has since developed weak knees and will sit out the race.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vitriolic bomb shells of recrimination burst in the camps of Johnson and Darrow while Sinclair's trench mortar added to the loud discord.
From Time Magazine Archive
Vitriolic acid air is procured by heating in hot acid of vitriol almost any substance containing phlogiston, especially the metals which are soluble in that acid, as copper, mercury, &c.
From Heads of Lectures on a Course of Experimental Philosophy: Particularly Including Chemistry by Priestley, Joseph
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