Search Result for "vituperation":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will;
[syn: vituperation, invective, vitriol]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vituperation \Vi*tu`per*a"tion\, n. [L. vituperatio: cf. OF. vituperation. See Vituperate.] The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame. [1913 Webster] When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him. --Donne. [1913 Webster]The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "vituperation": abuse, assailing, assault, attack, berating, billingsgate, bitter words, blackening, blame, calumny, censure, contumely, diatribe, execration, hard words, invective, jawing, jeremiad, obloquy, onslaught, opprobrium, philippic, rating, revilement, scolding, screed, scurrility, tirade, tongue-lashing, vilification
