vituperate
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Mr. Youngkin’s comment about Mr. Vance more or less obliges him not to vituperate the vice president in the usual way of presidential primaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
They vituperate even though what she and Sanders have said is, well, true.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2017
Over the next dozen years, he would vituperate again and again against Roosevelt's seemingly mystical ability to direct the national conversation.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2011
And may I add a word of deep appreciation for the highly intelligent letter of Mr. Frank Vincent Waddy, on the subject of our vituperate critic, Cyril D. H. G. Dillington-Dowse.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The "one" hangs; the "many" command by the dignity of force; the "few" vituperate and scold.
From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore
Nonetheless his St. Denis working class constituents have twice more re-elected him although he was opposed and vituperated by Communist candidates.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Idolized while victorious, he was vituperated with corresponding violence the instant fortune showed signs of wavering in her fidelity.
From The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886 by Various
To Niebuhr belongs the honour of having been the first to recognise the new school at the moment when it was "despised, derided, and vituperated."
From Overbeck by Atkinson, J. Beavington
He controlled no newspapers, vituperated nobody, championed nobody: he had no picked underlings; he used no bribes; there were no monstrous crimes alleged against him.
From Lord of the World by Benson, Robert Hugh
I needn’t have troubled you then,” vituperated Elizabeth, as she hastily bundled herself out of the roadster.
From Marjorie Dean, College Senior by Lester, Pauline
Now, this class of individuals entertain a mortal hatred for p. 355Lavengro and its writer, and never lose an opportunity of vituperating both.
From The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" by Watts-Dunton, Theodore
In the meantime the infant whom he was holding all the time in his arms very tenderly whilst he was vituperating, shut its eyes languidly; a sign of repletion.
From The Man Who Laughs by Hugo, Victor
He disappeared down the basement steps, and in another minute a harsh voice apparently vituperating him rose up, and when he rejoined his comrade his face was redder than ever.
From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold
As Nissr passed over the extraordinary Hejaz Railway, indifferent to the mob of frenzied, vituperating pilgrims, the chief peered far ahead for his first sight of Mecca, the Forbidden.
From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan
Mother.—"Now do be rational, why don't you listen to what I say, instead of vituperating in this manner?"
From Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Winton, Julia de
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