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

There’s a lot of vituperation, especially in this town, which is sad.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2018

It was perhaps the nadir of the vituperation hurled at Mann by often anonymous critics who accuse him and others of fabricating or exaggerating the dangers of climate change.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2017

All the publications which fell under my notice I treated in a gentlemanly . . . manner—no personalities, no vituperation, no shabby insinuations; decorum, decorum was the order of the day.” 

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.