vituperation

Example Sentences

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In Whitehall, there is some hope the arrival of Lord Mandelson as the new British ambassador might help stem the flow of personal vituperation across the Atlantic.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2025

As I’ve written, to advance this campaign the subcommittee has placed respected scientists in the dock and showered them with public vituperation, misrepresented their research and ridiculed the scientific method.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

But the vituperation leveled at her was so extreme that you would think she had started a war.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2021

Davies remembers how strongly people felt: “I would go home in a taxi, and this vituperation would pour out about what a scandalous waste of money the Dome was.”

From The Guardian • Mar. 12, 2020

With the second half of the eighteenth century there began an era of great license in the political press, an era of bitter vituperation and vile personal abuse.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber