Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Using, containing, or marked by harshly abusive censure.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to vituperate; containing or expressing abusive censure; abusive.
- Synonyms Opprobrious, scurrilous.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. marked by harshly abusive criticism
Examples
“I find the name vituperative name calling directed at John and Jen, and the questioning of their ethics and motivations, MUCH more offensive than anything that either of them has *ever* posted.”
“I would hope that anyone else responding to Palomares 'posting would stick to the subject rather than engage in vituperative rejoinder.”
“The conviction shared by most of the book's early critics, whether reflective or vituperative, is of the impropriety of the subject.”
“Melancholy dissyllable of sound! which, to his ears, was unison to Nincompoop, and every name vituperative under heaven. —”
“He'd never used that kind of vituperative language with her.”
“I kinda' had a hint as to what "vituperative" meant, but only from from context.”
“And we've got to keep it focused on the issues and away from the kind of vituperative attacks we've seen.”
“Now in a rapid descent, Broder's shuffle become more of a mad dash to avoid the fallout of his next instance of lack of lucidity by asserting that Ned Lamont supporters are "vituperative", bloggers of the left are all "angry", and Republican Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, and Bush sycophant fame, is an "ally of the center".”
“First of all, I had to look up "vituperative" to see what you meant.”
“In a long blog post responding to the bad reviews for Cpedia, the Cuil CEO - who created the search engine with his wife, former Google executive Anna Patterson - lashed out at his critics, calling them "vituperative" and”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘vituperative’.
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January 2012
bloviate, pastiche, apparat, facile, paroxysm, pique, bedfellow, pedigree, tutelage, protege, protégé, retroactive and 196 more...
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humpty's list
detrimental, hedonism, exonerate, extemporaneous, labyrinth, diffidence, brazen, celerity, alacrity, bigotry, phantasmagorical, sardonic and 14 more...

Salman Mustafa Please add this etymology information to this word (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vituperatio) Nov 15, 2009
logophile What a wonderful word with a horribly pretentious connotation. Oct 23, 2007