| 单词 | vituperative |
| 例句 | Where there are vituperative priority disputes, ways of resolving them must be sought. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The story he told was drunken and garbled, out of sequence and full of vituperative, self-righteous digressions; but I had no problem understanding it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When Calvin stopped replying to his letters, Servetus, based in Vienna, continued to send a stream of increasingly vituperative correspondence. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Tosh is well known for his vituperative onstage remarks and, let's not forget, she did heckle him. Stephen Merchant flies solo and Simon Pegg crash lands into 'sexism' row 2012-07-24T15:24:39Z Their daily clients being vituperative women and trunk-necked men who want to kill them, a string of assaults form the shattered spine of the show. Reality TV, redneck-style 2013-06-21T12:00:00Z But premiering in October, they spoke to each other in a vituperative election year that saw nationwide uprisings for racial justice. Best TV Shows of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z If that sounds uncommonly cruel, it’s in keeping with Jackson’s reputation as a figure who was vituperative and hysterically unforgiving, particularly toward his eleven children—an “ungodly, God-like man,” to borrow a phrase from “Moby-Dick.” The Twisted Legacy of the Stage Dad Joe Jackson 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z On a less elevated note, all three painters were also the victims of vituperative reviews and critical miscomprehension during their careers. A sublime trio 2012-06-08T21:55:02Z That this harsh worldview arises from such hilariously vituperative byplay makes “Our Lady” difficult to corral. Review: A Raucous Wake for ‘Our Lady of 121st Street’ 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Tennessee Williams’s later work would be lucky to be deemed problematic, so vituperative have commentators been in their appraisals over time. Theater Review: Daring to Overcome the Difficulties of 'Problem Plays' 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z Plus, he’s smart and clearly destined to be a writer who will one day inspire Vidal to his vituperative best. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The album plunges into tangled relationships: vituperative and clingy, flippant and desperate, awash in second thoughts. Jessie Reyez Is Yelling and Loving at the Same Time 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z There are lots of vituperative rants against the press in “A Journey”; at one point Mr. Blair rails against Britain’s Freedom of Information Act as “utterly undermining of sensible government.” Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery 2010-09-01T20:10:00Z Tennessee Williams's vituperative comment is just one of his observations on writers, actors, directors and producers from the 1960s onwards that will be published in a new . Tennessee Williams lambasted his rivals as 'vampires' 2013-02-17T00:06:15Z But concern trolling that the people who are being actively oppressed are maybe using "vituperative words" is, may I say, f**king ridiculous. Your rage is justified, and it's not "vituperative" 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z But when asked about some of the vituperative online responses to his show, his voice began to rise. Jamie Kennedy’s ‘First Night’ on New Year’s Eve 2013-01-06T22:48:18Z It led to a vituperative Senate Judiciary hearing at which senators from both parties called Ticketmaster and its corporate parent, Live Nation Entertainment, a monopoly. Live Music Is Roaring Back. But Fans Are Reeling From Sticker Shock. 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z His “Quarrel” movement was vituperative, but the other two movements were more than virtuosic, the “Slightly Tipsy” movement drenched in swirling color and the “Capriccioso” lost in a daydream. Russian pianist quarrels, attacks and fox trots in spectacular debut at the Phillips 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z But it is Helen McCrory who really carries the evening as the daughter who views her mother with a mix of vituperative anger and exasperated affection. The Last of the Haussmans – review 2012-06-20T17:21:31Z He also seemed very driven, and he could be vituperative towards timewasters. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z One of the most memorable scenes is a tense 19-minute dinner with the entire family around the table, in which Violet holds court, spewing vituperative verdicts on her disappointing family. Streep, Roberts do battle in dysfunction drama 'August: Osage County' 2013-09-10T19:51:06Z And if you would at all classify yourself as vituperative, voluptuous, or venerous, best not try to travel for leisure, lest you come to be known as a vacationer or a voyager in the process. Olympic women’s burden 2012-08-09T15:51:00Z He also proclaims that he is publishing the memoirs "in revenge" for his patient's untimely departure from treatment, and adds the vituperative quip: "I hope he is displeased." Siri Hustvedt on the psychoanalyst in fiction 2012-06-08T21:55:19Z Whether Angela Merkel, an avid Wagner fan, is familiar with this vituperative statement is unclear, but its sentiments would hardly come as a surprise to her. The Inexorable Rise of Angela Merkel 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z But by speaking his mind, arguing in favor of same-sex marriage and feminism, advocating for making science fiction conferences and online gaming communities more hospitable to women, Scalzi has created vituperative online enemies. John Scalzi conquers the publishing universe 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z And once the real experiences and opinions took over, allowing him to trade on his celebrity, he became a target of vituperative attack. Books of The Times: Charles J. Shields?s ?And So It Goes,? on Vonnegut - Review 2011-11-02T23:41:53Z The lovable curmudgeon pours his literary talents into vituperative letters of recommendation, which may not be appreciated by their fictional recipients, but provide wicked fun for readers. Dear Match Book: What Should I Read on My Summer Vacation? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s Perry’s willingness to stick up for himself, and by extension his clients — guilty or not, they’re the victims of vituperative racism among the city’s chattering class — that revs her engine. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 4: 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Copp may be the reason that my wife and her siblings and both our children have always had good vocabularies: destitute, vituperative, locality, inauspicious, gauche, megalomaniac, union suit. Jim Copp, the Forgotten Virtuoso of Children’s Storytelling 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z In today’s vituperative climate, that’s a story no one wants to tell or hear. Worst job in showbiz: why will no one touch the world's glitziest gigs? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Woody Guthrie - Little Black Train – Love the metaphor, love the vituperative edge to the lyrics. Readers recommend: Songs about concerts 2010-05-20T23:01:00Z Always a complex figure, he was prone to vituperative outbursts and threats that were quickly forgotten or contradicted, as happened on Saturday. As Putin’s Trusted Partner, Prigozhin Was Always Willing to Do the Dirty Work 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z His asking price for reimbursement in January went up after a vituperative letter in October to the university. A school took his family name off a building. He’s demanding $3.6 billion. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z When the film bases a character on a real person, it becomes downright vituperative. Commentary: Oscar nominee 'Tár' brought conducting into the spotlight. That's not good for classical music 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z And given today’s vituperative, self-destructive politics, it’s hard not to be swayed by his words at his first inauguration: “We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another.” Column: What I learned about myself at the Richard M. Nixon museum 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z A generation ago, the WTO drew huge, vituperative, even violent protests — notably from anti-globalists and anarchists who detested its closed-door secrecy and elites-decide-all image. WTO looks to reach trade deals with its fate on the line 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z When I volunteered at Planned Parenthood, I always had to walk past vituperative demonstrators to get in the building. Opinion | Privacy for thee, not for me 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z His emails contained vile, vicious and vituperative language, which gushed from the decadence embedded in his heart. Letters to Sports: Dodgers might have caught a break but proved they were better 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z There is little question that the vituperative, bullying nature of the right's so-called debating is also a core part of the problem. Why it's (almost) impossible to argue with the right 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z “On both sides, there’s really a lack of information. That’s why we have such extensive discussions and, in some cases, vituperative discussions,” Perlman said. Scientists battle over the ultimate origin story: Where did the coronavirus come from? 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z "Reasonable people understand that the 'language of the political arena, like the language used in labor disputes ... is often vituperative, abusive and inexact,'" Powell's motion to dismiss read. MAGA world civil war? Not quite — but pro-Trump figures are squabbling 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z He acknowledges that he was not thinking about the particularly vituperative and misogynistic abuse female critics can face when he wrote those bits of Malcolm’s monologues, and he says he was not singling out Walsh. Column: 'Malcolm & Marie' filmmaker Sam Levinson wanted to start a conversation. Just not this one 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “Governor DeSantis openly denounced Plaintiff in the most vitriolic and vituperative manner in the furor following her firing.” Former state employee sues Florida over search warrant 2020-12-21T05:00:00Z Normal disagreements over spending and policy this year escalated into vituperative attacks, smears and vandalism of elected officials’ homes. Durkan decision is an opportunity for Seattle reset 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z By definition, presidential campaigns are anxious affairs, often defined by vituperative rhetoric and high-volume antics. Torched Trump signs, raised middle fingers: Why D.C. can’t wait for the election to end 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z What’s more, the world remains afflicted by a lethal pandemic and the United States is enduring a vituperative and divisive election campaign. How to Hold Onto Your Money, Wherever the Market Takes You 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Republicans are defending a large number of seats, including several in moderate and battleground states like Colorado, Arizona and North Carolina, where a vituperative confirmation process could be challenging for the party. Court Vacancy Injects New Uncertainty Into Rancorous Election Battle 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z However, while Smith’s humorously vituperative lyrics were not something new, the musical backdrop to the song – all crackling electronics and crunchy beats – captured a new direction. The Fall: where to start with their catalogue 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s vituperative performance on Thursday was the diametrical opposite of how President Bill Clinton responded to his own acquittal after a Senate impeachment trial in 1999. Trump Hails Acquittal and Lashes Out at His ‘Evil’ and ‘Corrupt’ Opponents 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Mandarin speakers often told me how unwelcome they were made to feel, and sometimes went on to talk about Cantonese speakers in vituperative terms. Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z The referendum in Scotland in 2014 featured cybernats hurling the word quisling and other vituperative insults at Scots who opposed independence. Boris Johnson seeks to divide and conquer with his incendiary rhetoric | Andrew Rawnsley 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z If some disgruntled teen-ager wanted to quote Socrates’ vituperative opinions about women—or if, for that matter, a teen-ager wanted to share his own vituperative opinions—then who was Zuckerberg to stand in the way? The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Blanton said she avoids reading the vituperative reader comments when she writes a data-based analysis for FoxNews.com. Inside Fox News' polling 'nerdquarium,' whose numbers don't lie whether Trump likes them or not 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Broadway theatergoers who caught her Tony-winning performance last year in Edward Albee’s “Three Tall Women” will certainly recognize the vituperative dazzle. Review: Glenda Jackson battles through a brazenly busy ‘King Lear’ on Broadway 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The "vituperative" exchange between Mr Musk and Mr Unsworth took place during frantic attempts to rescue the 12 boys and their coach from deep within the partially flooded caves in July 2018. Musk tries to dismiss Thai libel claim 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z The vituperative, emotional response to this study illustrates the doubt and anxiety that any conversation about human diets incites in the public realm. It’s Time to Study Whether Eating Particular Diets Can Help Heal Us 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The source of the dogpile was easy enough to figure out: Breitbart had sent its vituperative audience to harass me, falsely implying that I had insulted Bush by putting "F**k Him" in the headline. Why are conservatives so furious about the links between George H.W. Bush and Donald Trump? 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z He’s such a menace that it’s tempting to cheer any vituperative critic and grab any handy truncheon. Opinion | Who’s the Real American Psycho? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z And like the Founders, many voters saw no reason to apologize for being loud and vituperative in defense of their views. Midterm voters are angry and divided, but still believe in the power of the vote 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z McKee, who is gay, said Judge sent a vituperative email wishing him the same fate as Matthew Shepard, the gay college student who was beaten and left to die in Wyoming in 1998. ‘100 Kegs or Bust’: Kavanaugh friend, Mark Judge, has spent years writing about high school debauchery 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z "The last thing we changed was the drums on Come On Then, which is the opening track," says Allen of the vituperative curtain-raiser to her fourth album, No Shame. Last-minute revisions to Mercury albums 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z His current place of work embodies a neighbourly bond that is tightening even as politics becomes more vituperative. Why America and Mexico are destined to grow even closer 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump’s coarse discourse increasingly seems to inspire opponents to respond with vituperative words of their own. In Trump’s America, the Conversation Turns Ugly and Angry, Starting at the Top 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Fazlullah rose to fame as “FM Mullah”, broadcasting vituperative calls for jihad from his radio station. US drone strike kills Pakistan Taliban leader, say officials 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Still, these states tend to produce a spacey quality during waking hours, not the kind that lends itself to tossing off vituperative insults. Why Ambien Didn’t Make Roseanne Tweet Anything 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z And as he warned they might, the disputes have grown more vituperative—“through Clinton hatred, through Bush hatred, through Obama hatred” and through “every Supreme Court opening.” The Man Who Discovered ‘Culture Wars’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z By the standards of the North’s vituperative propaganda machine, this is as emollient as it gets. Kim Jong Un says he will stop testing missiles 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z As a university dean and professor, I think it is my duty to encourage conversation, as opposed to vituperative name-calling. A Riot of Civility Erupts in Philly—of All Places 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Egged on by the vituperative conservative media, even some Republicans who disapprove of Mr Trump are wedded to such tactics. Past episodes of presidential wrongdoing have provoked a reaction 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Andrew Johnson, a vituperative racist, was temperamentally and politically unsuited to succeed the slain Abraham Lincoln. Opinion | They Were Bad. He May Be Worse. 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Instead it is vituperative, though cloaked in astonishment. Hold the Fire, Hold the Fury 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Usually he is content to hammer foes with a vituperative tweet – not this time. Booked! Trump, staffers who cried Wolff and a week of fire and fury 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z In characteristic fashion the president hit back – but while he usually targets his foes through Twitter, Bannon earned the dubious honour of a vituperative 266-word statement. Donald Trump issues legal threat to Steve Bannon after book revelations 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Hers was a blatant attempt to throw the flag over the false and vituperative statements of the White House chief of staff. Opinion | Sarah Huckabee Sanders is wrong about John Kelly 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z The worst-case scenario would be a vituperative denunciation or an ultimatum to Iran to renegotiate – an option that Tehran, Moscow and Beijing have rejected – coupled with a challenge to Congress to reimpose sanctions. 'We are on a tightrope': Trump poised to walk away from Iran nuclear deal 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Many thousands of people do so, as evidenced on social media in vituperative postings and below-the-line comments on mainstream media sites. How blurring of fact and comment kicked open the door to fake news | Roy Greenslade 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The trademark is a vituperative attack on a president who himself engages in vituperative attacks and hate speech, and has — he says — brought the general level of our political discourse to a new low. "The Piss Tape is Real" has a good shot at becoming a registered US trademark 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Marine Le Pen, the FN’s vituperative leader, often refers to her opponents as “the media-political system” or, more succinctly, la caste. How Marine Le Pen played the media 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z Her e-mail address is in her Twitter profile, and Fox News viewers were sending her vituperative e-mails, along with vituperative tweets. Tucker Carlson’s Fighting Words 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Mixed in with Rand’s vituperative attacks on government was a defense of the individual’s rights in the face of a powerful state. Perspective | Ayn Rand is dead. Liberals are going to miss her. 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z His vituperative, vindictive press conferences are already rich food for late-night comedy. Trump’s entire campaign was a bait-and-switch: Washington’s a mess, and it’s all the president’s fault 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z In dozens of vituperative articles, Hahn called Ryan a “third-world migration enthusiast” and a “double agent” who was secretly campaigning for Hillary Clinton. Becoming Steve Bannon’s Bannon 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z With the start of the Trump presidency comes fear of a new, more vituperative tenor in the mainstream, cementing a national lurch to the right. Alt-writing: how the far right is changing US publishing 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z Predicting Trump’s plans, however, largely relies upon reading the runes from his discursive policy speeches, which regularly dissolved into vituperative diatribes while on the campaign trail. Trump presidency a 'disaster for the planet' 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z Trump, needless to say, has been the most vituperative. Why did AT&T and Time Warner unveil merger mid-election? Panic, perhaps 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z As a longtime advocate for Brexit, Forsyth said he was pleased with the result of the European Union referendum in June but found the campaign was “vituperative” and “unnecessarily insulting”. Frederick Forsyth to stop writing thrillers 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The sniping on the neighborhood’s Yahoo email group has turned vituperative enough many commenters enter the fray girded for battle. How an ugly expanse of concrete morphed into hallowed ground 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Pence, who swore off negative campaigning after losing a vituperative congressional race in 1990, eschews name calling. On the trail with Mike Pence: Putting out fires lit by Trump 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z By holding out against Mr Trump, at least for a bit, Mr Ryan mainly hopes to persuade him to adopt a less vituperative style. Learning to love the Don 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Why such a vituperative response by a professor at a Catholic law school over the death of a notable alumnus? Justice Scalia’s lessons on respect and friendship 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Adding to the harsh tenor of their campaign is the vituperative tone; a variation of "liar" was flung almost two dozen times by candidates in Saturday's angry debate. GOP brawl in South Carolina may have repercussions in the general election 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Still, his history of lobbing vituperative and highly personal insults at the president could reverberate among black Obama supporters. Warning signs for Hillary Clinton in South Carolina 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z They are now clashing perhaps more than ever with the country’s expanding far right and its vituperative denunciation of migrants and relentless hostility toward Muslims. Giving Voice to France’s Poorest Youth, With Rhymes and Beats 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The statement will be nothing new to Korea watchers, filled as it is with vituperative contempt. North Korea's dramatic rhetoric and claims over its bomb test - BBC News 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z The debate over the deal inside the company “escalated into something personal, even vituperative” when Mrs. Fiorina faced off against Walter B. Hewlett, the son of an H.P. founder, who was against the deal. Daily Report: Flashbacks to Fiorina at H.P. 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The debate over the clubs has roiled the campus and prompted vituperative online discussions. With an Invitation, a Gender Barrier at Harvard Falls 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z “Just compare what he says to what Scalia says in his dissents and tell me which you think is more vituperative,” Fried said of Cruz. Cruz once clerked for a chief justice, but he’s no longer a friend of the court 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The second camp of critics, much more vituperative than the first, was basically composed of people who lambasted me for my descriptions of poverty, injustice, inequality and illiteracy in India. The Very Serious Implications of India's Education Crisis 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The article, she said, was slightly too vituperative for Anderson, which is no small feat. The Last (or at Least Looniest) Newspaper in America 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z To keep this uppermost in voters’ minds, the SNP wants to prolong the vituperative, vivid and polarising politics of that contest—hence the Yes banners and vitriol evident in Dundee. Murphy’s law 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z My Twitter feed Wednesday brimmed with Muslims denouncing the attack — and noting that fanatical Muslims damage the image of Muhammad far more than the most vituperative cartoonist. Let’s avoid religious profiling after Charlie Hebdo attack 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z “This isn’t vituperative. It is an opinion. It is a judgment, a legal judgment. It isn’t correct — I mean I don’t agree with it — but it’s not out of line.” Cruz once clerked for a chief justice, but he’s no longer a friend of the court 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z At times magnanimous, at times vituperative: China may continue to show both facets to the world for as long as it may not feel as confident about its strengths as it would wish to appear. The Chinese order 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z King, arguably Congress’ most vituperative opponent of immigration, boasted, “The changes brought into this are ones I’ve developed and advocated for over the past two years. It’s like I ordered it off the menu.” As GOP goes right, Obama eyes big move on immigration 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z Regardless, even many of Obama’s most vituperative critics would be forgiven for asking, “ ” at this point. An embarrassing swing and a miss for Speaker Boehner 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The myth of vituperative, job-destroying, Scots-hating Tories took hold and, especially when the Conservatives are ruling in Westminster, in Scottish minds they and the English can seem synonymous. How did it come to this? 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z He also claims Major League Baseball was responsible for “vituperative utterances” about Mr. Rector on its website after the clip of him sleeping was posted the next day. A Fan Sleeps at a Game, Wakes Up and Sues Baseball 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z But he has also become the most vituperative scold of the way Democrats have run Washington, especially the Senate. Mississippi Race Points to Appeal of Partisanship 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Finally, there was the vituperative reaction from Freedom, a privately-held conglomeration controlled by the New York-based private equity firm, Cerberus Capital Management. The Man Who Wants to Buy the Biggest U.S. Gun Maker Doesn't Own a Gun 2014-03-31T09:59:45Z And the Web exploded — with vituperative commentary about the Net’s imminent demise. Netflix, Comcast Hook Up Sparks Web Drama 2014-02-26T12:28:00Z The brand is Cheerios cereal, which introduced in May a commercial featuring an interracial family that unexpectedly generated an outpouring of vituperative online remarks. Advertising: An American Family Returns to the Table 2014-01-29T01:04:38Z That drew so many vituperative remarks on YouTube that the commenting function was disabled. Advertising: Commercials With a Gay Emphasis Are Moving to Mainstream Media 2013-06-26T01:46:15Z Furthermore, a recent study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that vituperative comments on science articles affected how people perceived the validity of the science. Boot up: HTC's green move, Samsung's China problem, anti-NRA app petition and more 2013-01-18T06:30:00Z It was Huckabee who didn’t just mouth off once, but kept mouthing off, clarifying his original vituperative inanity with ever more vituperative inanity from his apparently limitless supply. Huckabee blames gays for the Newtown massacre 2012-12-17T16:26:00Z Negative campaigning is woven into the U.S. political fabric, and the attacks this year are not as vituperative or personally vindictive as in some earlier contests. Letter From Washington: Media Share Blame for Negative Ads 2012-10-14T15:50:04Z Behind the rows is an intense and vituperative power struggle to determine the nature of the next papacy. The Vatican’s woes: God’s bankers 2012-07-05T15:28:41Z Many cannot stand him for his vituperative denunciations of Israel as Nazi-like in its treatment of the Palestinians. City Room: On Primary Day, Closely Watching Two Races 2012-06-26T13:35:32Z Though politicians worldwide routinely dispute unfavorable polls, the "survey war" in Venezuela involves direct attacks on the integrity of the pollsters themselves, making the already vituperative campaign even more heated. Venezuela 'poll wars' rage as presidential race heats up 2012-06-06T17:42:06Z Henley Street Sunday afternoon Theatrical voices—commanding, secretive, beseeching, vituperative—are not voices I want to recall. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Containing abuse, or serving as the instrument of abuse; vituperative; reproachful; scurrilous. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Where the Christian in ermine has been brutal, vituperative, and malignant, let him not exact a perennial delicacy of sentiment from his victim, writhing under his provocations. Life and Character of Richard Carlile 2012-03-14T02:00:25.327Z When you win the NRA’s allegiance, you get not only its money, but its activists, who are among the most vocal and sometimes vituperative in many jurisdictions. Who's Afraid of the NRA? 2012-02-16T01:45:13Z Apropos of which I thank you immensely for D'Annunzio's frenchified ode—a wondrous and magnificent thing in its kind, even if running too much—for my "taste"—to the vituperative and the execrational. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z The debate was, therefore, left almost entirely in the hands of the irreconcilables, who vied with one another in the application to Chairo of epithets that were picturesque and vituperative. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z After a discussion described as thorough and never vituperative, the proposals were rejected before they reached the senior political levels of the White House. Cyberwarfare Against Libya Was Debated by U.S. 2011-10-17T19:01:30Z The indignation of another writer, supposed to be Cotton Mather, lashed itself into such fury that it seemed as if the vile sheet would be buried beneath a pyramid of vituperative words. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z And who exactly is supervising those "specialists" and their vituperative messages? Is the Pentagon commanding jihadis? 2011-08-11T16:40:00Z From his youth upwards he gave signs of the possession of an imperious disposition and a vituperative tongue, and he on several occasions manifested a want of filial affection. Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester 2011-07-22T02:00:20.277Z The girl's milky face became a fiery red, and she retorted in vituperative Yiddish from that vocabulary which is the undivided possession of her sex. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z And his vituperative criticism of U.S. foreign policy has made him a hero for many leftists around the world. Chavez celebrates Venezuelan independence 2011-07-05T17:13:33Z She seemed to gather vituperative force beyond her strength, for suddenly she stopped pacing the room to sink to a chair. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z VANCOUVER, British Columbia The Stanley Cup final series that concluded with Game 7 on Wednesday night was not simply a highly charged, vituperative and sometimes violent clash of two excellent hockey teams. On Hockey: When Sporting Cultures Collide 2011-06-16T01:12:07Z He was vituperative in his language, austere in his manners, undutiful and repelling to his mother. Ludicrous Aspects Of Christianity A Response To The Challenge Of The Bishop Of Manchester 2011-07-22T02:00:20.277Z The discussions to which this gave rise were earnest, often angry and vituperative, but always able, enlisting the most accomplished men of the country. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Masuccio is terribly in earnest; whether sympathetic or vituperative, he makes the voice of his heart heard. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z I do not wish to join that a vituperative chorus, because there is much I admire in the senator. Economix: The Economics of Privately Sponsored Social Insurance 2011-04-01T10:00:28Z These two deputies had been especially vituperative in their attacks upon the law. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z There remained the chance that even this might not be possible, however, and in that case the only thing to be done was to leave the place under a cloud of vituperative indignation and threats. The Man Without a Memory 2011-03-09T03:00:45.963Z The companies shut the show down citing Mr. Sheen’s repeated instances of drug use as well as vituperative statements he made about the show’s creator, Chuck Lorre. Media Decoder: Charlie Sheen Fired From ?Two and a Half Men? 2011-03-07T21:58:38Z Two miners, who had been “regular mates,” were quarrelling; and their neighbours had gathered upon the ground, to be edified by an abundance of vituperative eloquence. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z And, with this last truly English vituperative, May left the thicket, and went to prepare his master’s breakfast. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z But they never got a hearing, as all the conversation was vituperative and one-sided. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z One after another all the cardinal doctrines were challenged by writers who were generally acute, and almost invariably vituperative. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z The last sentence seems rather superfluous,—if it was justifiable,—but, after all, no harm probably was done, and Dumas as a rule was never vituperative. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z She scowled and would have become vituperative, but Raston moved the hand which held the envelope significantly. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z Chris Christie this fall over the state’s education cuts became a YouTube classic, she has received a stream of vituperative e-mails and postings. Public Workers Facing Outrage as Budget Crises Grow 2011-01-02T02:05:52Z Most of these foreign publications were unhappily marked by that coarse and almost vituperative opposition to received views which too often disfigures French and German controversial literature. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z He was nearly vituperative in his dismissal of the City ever favoring such a mode of transportation. City Room: A Bicycle Lane Built for Few? 2010-12-09T14:50:00Z The annual meeting mainly attracts individual investors, who were vituperative when complaining about how the bank's shares used to trade at more than $50 apiece and now trade at less than $5. Citi CEO stresses "responsible finance" 2010-04-20T20:20:00Z For his part, Lieberman accuses many of those same actors of "political tribalism" and calls their tactics "vituperative." Lonely Joe 2010-02-25T08:30:00Z Obama's first year in office ended last month, and despite all the chatter about "postpartisanship" that accompanied his election, American politics remains as petty and vituperative as it was under George W. Bush. 2010-02-01T23:29:00Z The modern practice of swearing, in either its flippant or vituperative shape, is derived from the break-up of the process once devised as a protection of truthfulness and fair dealing. A Cursory History of Swearing It was Jos�'s parrot, Benito, flinging to the breeze the most vituperative epithets a rich and racy vocabulary could suggest. The Trail of Conflict She traveled much, and wrote several vituperatively amusing books. Curious Punishments of Bygone Days He could not perceive any reason for the sudden projection of this vituperative head, out of infinity, so to speak. The Wonderful Visit Some of the thoughts we got the first day were vituperative, some were quite obscene, and some were pretty feeble, but that didn't matter. Nine Men in Time But it must be remembered that the subject of vituperative swearing is so interwoven with that of these legal and religious ordinances, that the consideration of them must be frequently forced upon us. A Cursory History of Swearing A sort of false vigour that sent him roaming about the house at times—haranguing in his brilliant, bitter way—insolent, vituperative, insupportable. Shadows of Flames A Novel Surely this vituperative description must apply to an aboriginal race. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" We were a lively set, and the jokes that were bandied about, coupled with the most unparliamentary, not to say vituperative language, at first startled me. Fragments of an Autobiography When the youth did come in, the scolding he got was vituperative in its violence, with the result that Percy was reluctantly forced to abandon the sweetheart to whom he had plighted his troth. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History There would seem to have been no actual counterpart in these languages to the vituperative swearing of modern days. A Cursory History of Swearing A perfect inundation of vituperative accusation, however, now poured in, and I could gather no more. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Thus Baron Rolfe could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence; it was the same thing with the addition of a vituperative epithet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Sometimes the seals were unusually alert and shy, the birds vituperative and restless, and the fish obstinate in their preference for the waters far offshore. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Let those relations then, be established, and our vituperative ex-friend despatched as ambassador to the Pope. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) Criticism cannot be rendered sufficiently vituperative to characterize properly such a passage. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Old Abbie, alone, was bitterly vituperative of both the man and his condoning admirers. The Song of the Wolf Like most vituperative men, Dr. Campbell is terribly thin-skinned. The London Pulpit Men know the fact already and were they not afraid of his vituperative proclivities they would laugh at him; as it is, they don't concern themselves about him. Heathen Master Filcsik The mistake of vituperative William, the error of hiccuping and unsteady James, is the supposition that cabs were made for none but extortionate rascals to drive, and none but opulent spendthrifts to ride in. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) His tone towards them is almost always contemptuous, where it is not positively vituperative. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Even a Times leader of to-day would fall short of Milton in vituperative terms. Books Condemned to be Burnt The arrogant and vituperative Warburton was only such in his assumed character; for in still domestic life he was the creature of benevolence, touched by generous passions. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Accordingly the next day Sugden attacked the appointment in the House of Commons, and though he was by way of only asking a question, he in fact made a long vituperative speech. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II In view of this likelihood, would not those who are dissatisfied with The Book Annexed as it stands be taking the wiser course were they to substitute co-operative for vituperative criticism? A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer How long, O Catiline, would–– A paralyzing suspicion flashed into the maelstrom of my vituperative maledictions. Our Next-Door Neighbors On another occasion he concluded a vituperative address by describing the defendant as "a most naufrageous ruffian." Law and Laughter The vituperative print says that I was not asked to deliver an address, but was told that I could "do so if I liked." Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Once Kit left the gully and climbed the steep grade to the mesa alone to view the landscape over, but slid and scrambled down,––hot, dusty, and vituperative. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine Perfecting himself in political intrigue and in vituperative debating, also in caustic letter-writing; all is necessary grist for the Bismarck mill. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck He rowed out to The Stormy Petrel in a small boat, and on coming near assailed them, in English and Gaelic, with all the most vituperative expressions he could remember. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The practice of his trade has given him the command of all the slashing and vituperative phrases of our language, and the turn of his mind leads him to the habitual use of them. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject "He tries to be reasonable, but his colors are soon shown when he breaks down into vituperative language like a frustrated child." The Great Gray Plague The Reverend Mr. Wiggin, when he revised Mrs. Eddy's book in 1885, persuaded her to omit these vituperative passages on the ground that they were libelous. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 If you saw that moody face in the crowd, one glance would be sufficient to make you feel how vituperative, short, sharp, murderous the unknown man could be, on occasion. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck Frederick could not, for the life of him, understand the necessity of so much rancour and vituperative language. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man In unsparing and vituperative denunciation they certainly excel; but are they not filled with the most gross exaggerations and misrepresentations, not to say willful falsehoods. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Sanskrit writers have exhausted vituperative language in describing woman. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ He gave vent to his agony, as he lay prostrate on his pallet, in wails of anguish and vituperative mutterings; uttered in the unintelligibleness of his own language. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter Had the vituperative pen of Poe ever thrown off more stinging criticism than that? Stories of Authors, British and American A French commentator consoles himself by reflecting that the author of the Divina Commedia is far more vituperative when dealing with certain Italian peoples, whom he designates as hogs, curs, wolves and foxes. The Story of Paris They certainly rose strongly to the occasion, and, with the help of sundry powerful Americanisms, gave a very fair display of vituperative eloquence. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath On the following morning he was less vituperative and less unreasonable, but he was still intent upon the subject. Ralph the Heir He shut the piano with a vituperative bang, and threw himself into a rickety leather chair. The Goose Man No home, no person is too sacred for the vituperative tongues of these scandal-mongers. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies Defoe is never vituperative—that is, vituperative for a time when Pope and Swift and Dennis made their personal invective so much higher flavored than modern taste endures. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 However, in time matters settled down in a measure; and beyond vituperative language and sanguinary threats against the successful applicants, the rejected candidates, male and female, behaved very nicely. Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 He was the master of a singularly attractive, lucid, and vituperative style, scarcely inferior to that of Junius himself. The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 "We shall not get to Chicago in twenty-four hours at this rate," said Mr. Whippleton, when he had wasted all his vituperative rhetoric upon me. Desk and Debit or, The Catastrophes of a Clerk It is a contemptible and derisory gift for luck, like vituperative outcries. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals He grows vituperative and pours a volley of passionate abuse upon a woman whom he represents as disdaining his advances. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Probably it was because she found in her one who would submit meekly to any amount of contradiction, and listen patiently to any amount of vituperative declamation. Fighting the Flames A vituperative epithet is capable of making a big show. Mental Efficiency And Other Hints to Men and Women This produces an increase of irritation and ill-will, and they become the more violent vituperative in proportion as they feel the change. Diary in America, Series Two And still Congress wrangled on with Government and within itself; still Mr. Foote blew clouds of vituperative gas at President and Cabinet; still Mr. Davis retained, in council and field, the men he had chosen. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death The monotonous and artificial regularity with which the sonnetteers sounded the vituperative stop, whenever they had exhausted their notes of adulation, excited ridicule in both England and France. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles But a thousand vituperative editors sprang at Mr. Fulton's utterances, and as snapping curs, growled at and shook every sentence. History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens After listening to his vituperative eloquence I would ride on in a hopeful frame of mind. By the Christmas Fire He had never been wittier, never more convincing, never so magnificently vituperative. Better Dead That there has been much foolish vituperative abuse of the whole German nation and of everything German indiscriminately in the Press of this and some other countries is undoubtedly true. German Culture Past and Present But external evidence is more conclusive as to the artificial construction of the vituperative sonnets. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles But the Celtic vocabulary, particularly rich in expletives, failed to meet the ever-growing vituperative wants of the villagers. My New Curate Probably his visit was prompted by the most friendly motives; but when he was urged to clear out he lifted up his head and became vituperative. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 His vituperative power was great, and some specimens of it may not come amiss in a sketch of the man. John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series All their poems are mostly short, and confined to amatory, laudatory, or vituperative compositions, called forth by the momentary circumstances in which the authors happened to be placed. Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature She was in a blind and unreasoning passion of vituperative malevolence by this time, her face drawn and withered with fear, her eyes luminous, in the dungeon-like half-lights, with the inner fire of her hate. Phantom Wires A Novel His talent for vituperative language was perceived, and by some he was, even in those days, considered matchless as a scold. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell In answer to this there arose a perfect torrent of almost vituperative antagonism from the opposite side of the House. Phineas Redux Much as she obviously condemned me, there was no noisy recrimination, no violent vituperative outburst on her part. Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel The Soliloquy of the divish Cloister attains a new effect of grotesque: it is the comic tragedy of vituperative malevolence. An Introduction to the Study of Browning All the other old favourites of vituperative must have missed fire before this almost sacred, disqualifying Podsnappianism is applied to the objectionable person, picture, book, behaviour, or movement. Masques & Phases When he ceased to be witty, sarcastic, or vituperative, he became turgid. Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 M, in fact, after this tirade ceases p. 118any attempt at argument, and contents himself with feeble suggestions, which afford to X fertile openings for the exercise of his vituperative abilities. Rome in 1860 Now, Hatton's knowledge of foreign tongues was pretty much limited to those vituperative epithets which are first and oftenest heard in every language. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters Art repressed a vituperative response, counted three, then thanked the cop. Eastern Standard Tribe He thought, indeed, that vituperative and satiric criticism was defeating its own end, in the case of the Edinburgh Review since it was overworked to the point of monotony. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature Influenced by fanaticism and stimulated by cupidity they let slip no opportunity of dealing out upon such as oppose their hideous doctrines the choicest sort of vituperative blackguardism. An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles Their continual bickerings, and often their vituperative language, occasion the English to entertain the most contemptible and ridiculous opinions of our nation. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The defence was on the old lines of denunciation of the wickedness of the assailants, of vituperative epithets, and of the assumption of special and divine illumination. Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World No terms were too vituperative to denounce the enormity. Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked It is not his toil, but his hobby, passion, vice, monomania—any vituperative epithet you like to bestow on it! Your United States Impressions of a first visit Much of the literature found among his chattels was of a superlatively vituperative character, and attacked the white race in unstinted language and asserted the equal rights of the Negro. Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics It may be useful to bring to recollection Coke's vituperative style in the following dialogue, so beautiful in its contrast with that of the great victim before him! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 Curiously, although no derogatory mention had previously been made of him, the articles and editorials were now most vituperative. Twelve Men To them and to others, too, his language seemed grossly intemperate and vituperative, and was deemed productive of harm to the movement. William Lloyd Garrison The Abolitionist Or if the shock tumbled them out of power, then with these vituperative Tories, these spiteful advocates of weak tyrannies and privileged pretences in the place of them. Mr. Britling Sees It Through Bill Jackson, having first meticulously exhausted the entire vituperative resources of the English, the Spanish and all the Indian languages he knew, finally poked the muzzle of the pistol into Woodhull's back. The Covered Wagon His controversial style was lively and vigorous, but sometimes coarse and vituperative. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Somebody sent a copy of the local paper containing a vituperative interview with the old mountaineer. The Rules of the Game His vituperative vocabulary seemed unlimited, inexhaustible, and cumulative. Reveries of a Schoolmaster He delivered vituperative, even obscene sermons, which may still be read in his collected works. The Forty-Niners A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado The native local practitioner was reported mono-lingual, and of small scientific reputation; while our General though fluent in vituperative Hindustani, and fairly articulate in Arabic, could lay no claim to proficiency in the French language. Deadham Hard He attached himself to the Whigs, in whose interest he wrote several bitter and vituperative pamphlets. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature The vituperative eloquence showered upon Mr. Ferret by the Major's lady was, I afterwards heard, extremely copious and varied, and was borne by him, as I could easily believe, with the most philosophic composure. The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney Her impertinence inspired Adelaide, who joined her in a flow of vituperative wit at the expense of their mother and other relatives, incidentally brought in. The Morgesons A more vituperative female Rebel I have never seen. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation But, if my suggestions were not accorded a respectful hearing, and my demands acted upon at once, I invariably supplemented them with vituperative ultimatums. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Having overwhelmed the enemy with a vituperative broadside, he fell upon them single-handed, tore from them their cherished blankets, and spilt the leeks to the four winds. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil It is so disfigured with self-conceit and vituperative recollections of old grievances, that we regret some kind friend of the author did not suggest the omission of these personalities. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. Old Hagar spat viciously at them both, and shrilled vituperative sentences—in her own tongue fortunately; else the things she said must have brought swift retribution. Good Indian The Native, who had no particular name, but answered to any vituperative epithet, presented himself instantly at the door and ventured to come no nearer. Dombey and Son Occasionally he was so unwise as to stand his ground for several minutes, and his arguments on such occasions served only to keep my temper at a vituperative heat. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography On one or two occasions she had overwhelmed her host with vituperative abuse, making him responsible for her husband's absence. An Outcast of the Islands He was Jesuit and atheist as it suited the turn of any vituperative polemist. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 There is a critique in the Satirist2, which I have read,—fairly written, and, though vituperative, very fair in judgment. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 The hot-tempered, light-minded Queen Eleanor's open contempt of the English drew upon her such hatred, that vituperative ballads were made on her, some of which have come down to our times. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II He had written half a column of very vituperative stuff when Hinde came into the room. The Foolish Lovers There were parrots to be looked after, also, including an extremely vituperative old macaw, any verbal communication with whom laid the advancing party open to all manner of insult and objurgation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 The vituperative character of Luther's answer confirmed him in his hatred of the new doctrine. Outline of Universal History He expends a wealth of vituperative Latin which makes us tremble, till we remember that it is put in motion to crush an insect. Milton Eleanor of Provence, married to Henry III.; vituperative ballads made on her; her unpopularity; her spirited conduct in the Barons' war. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II They were waiting for Senator Battle, who was famous among them for the vituperative vigour of his attacks and for the kind of personalities which made valuable copy. In the Arena Stories of Political Life Language is not vituperative enough to express the effect of its downward elongation. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey At last, like Portuguese Catholics when exhausted with entreating their saints, the crowd without had recourse to vituperative exclamations. The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day One public man in a recent angry altercation with another taunted him with elaborately preparing his invective, and some notoriously vituperative speeches are known to have been written out and printed before they were spoken. Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" Three spring months, at Florence, had been spent in making a scientific collection of local imprecations—abusive, vituperative or profane expletives; swear-words, in short—enriched with elaborate commentary. Alone And learning that vituperative books concerning certain men were being written, he ordered a search for them. Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form But it is rather too late for liberal pleaders to urge them in a merely vituperative sense. Impressions of Theophrastus Such The Squire declared that Redbud's cheeks were beginning to be tolerably red again; that she had been pretending sickness only—and then, with a vituperative epithet addressed to Caesar, the old gentleman re-commenced reading. The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier These accomplishments are of the same kind, and only a degree higher than the coaxing of the auctioneer, or the vituperative style well described in the street-word "jawing." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Of course, he was but little pleased with Joel's remark on the present occasion; and being, like a modern newspaper, somewhat more vituperative than logical, he broke out as related. Wyandotte He denounced me, I afterwards learned, in his pulpit in the severest terms, although I did not hear that he used the same vituperative language towards the poor creatures I had so far absolved. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) Two were helping the driver out, two others having their gallantry in performing like service for the maid rewarded by a torrent of vituperative denunciation, half hysterical and wholly infuriated. Alias the Lone Wolf The minor Reviews, representing middle-class respectability, were generally vituperative, and the higher authorities divided in their judgments. Byron The Edinburgh Review, the most able of the three and the most in earnest in politics, is the least vituperative. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come There is nothing with sufficient vituperative concentration for this moral and intellectual stupidity of educated people.... A Modern Utopia She is not so revengeful or vituperative as the sisters of her husband, but she feels it is due to her husband's memory to find his slayer, if possible. Vicky Van The vituperative critics of the Quarterlies and, earlier still, of Grub Street, used their enemies' books as a means of indulging their needs for self- expression. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism In the second place, he enjoyed Manuel's vituperative remarks about cutting the liver out of the "boss." West Wind Drift Aunt and niece exchanged glances of consternation as they detected a stranger's voice through the open window, and Gillian uttered a vituperative whisper. Beechcroft at Rockstone A liberal reward will be paid by the writer for a suitably vituperative epithet to be applied to the ordinary street preacher. The Fiend's Delight For the rest, the heresiarch had a mighty flow of vituperative speech. Demos Whereupon the girl grew vituperative in two languages, and made off. In the Year of Jubilee They had arrived at another station, where, in place of finding post-horses, they were met by another mob as vituperative as the one they had encountered before. Prince Eugene and His Times A representative from Ohio and one of the most vituperative anti-Lincoln men in Congress, Vallandigham in a sensational speech applied to the existing situation Chatham's words, "My lords, you cannot conquer America." Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North And La Boulaye assisted him in his labours with kicks and cuffs and a tongue no less vituperative. The Trampling of the Lilies He was a rapid, fluent, fervid, and imaginative speaker, pleasing in aspect and manner,—a strong contrast to the harsh, vituperative old man who had just preceded him. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 He became absorbed in the contemplation, only now and then giving vent to some vituperative epithet, till he suddenly dashed his hand on the table with a force that startled the cat from her doze. Heartsease, Or, the Brother's Wife Douglas angrily reminded him of the vituperative epithets contained in the manifesto, which evidently wounded him more deeply than the coarser indignities. Life of Stephen A. Douglas Finding that he could not cajole the federal officer, Young threw off all disguise, and in reply to an earlier letter of Colonel Alexander, he gave free play to his vituperative powers. The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 "Cassier!" was muttered by the astounded debaters who had listened to the vituperative philippics of the Portuguese merchant. Alvira, the Heroine of Vesuvius She raised her voice to an absolute scream, thrusting her dirty hands through her still dirtier hair as the proper accompanying gesture to her vituperative oratory. Stories by English Authors: London (Selected by Scribners) Had there but been, among one's resources, a little patience and practical candor, instead of all that vituperative eloquence and power of tragi-comic description! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 Since his inauguration, Stanton had been one of his most vituperative critics. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War They swore so drawlingly, and they rarely paused short of their full vocabulary, which was copious, so that Chicken had often gulped a good meal during the process of the vituperative prohibition. Roads of Destiny The profusion of maledictions and vituperative epithets which composed his vocabulary could hardly have been rivalled in the fishmarket or the beargarden. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 No vituperative epithet was strong enough to fling at my head. Native Life in South Africa “All right; I won’t,” he said decisively, realizing that the discussion was in danger of becoming a vituperative, schoolboy argument. Adventure |
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