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(noun) sustained and bitter railing and condemnation; vituperative utterance / (noun) an act or instance of vituperating

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It is the sheer weight of Céline's racist vituperations

—p.206 Cat Man (199) by George Steiner
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A curious side effect of open access: a level of vituperation rarely encountered from paying customers, the wrathful indignity of the freeloader!

—p.197 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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Adorno, very sensibly, waited until he came to edit the book containing these vituperative speeches to deliver his judgement on Albert’s outburst

in Adorno v Popper

—p.341 Part VI: The 1960s (301) by Stuart Jeffries
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the bomb was so hot and vituperative

—p.226 The Anthology (222) by Karan Mahajan
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there is punitive, vituperative quality in the published reviews

—p.63 The Naked and the Conflicted (63) by Katie Roiphe
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commenting vituperatively on the imitators of modernity in other languages who are totally unaware of what motivated the French

—p.57 by Czesław Miłosz
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You have to queue, and pay good money, to mingle with vituperative interpreters and flashlight-faced Japanese

—p.326 by Martin Amis
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The reason people are so vituperative about those generations is not because they know anything about the history

on Victorians and Puritans

—p.241 The Salon Interview (238) by Neal Stephenson
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Whatever Works is a vituperative, hostile film that mellows after a great painful-looking shot of Larry David lying on top of a woman he’s landed on while trying to commit suicide by jumping out a window

—p.293 This Planet Is Not Yours to Rule (291) by A S Hamrah
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the rarity of one contemporary prose stylist analyzing another's devices so closely (if vituperatively)

—p.238 The Passion of Pauline Kael (219) by Phillip Lopate
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Across the hall, the purely academic panels in the 1980s were, for better or worse, more vituperative.

—p.11 World Lite (1) by n+1
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