vituperous

• Madeleine-Bastille -- crowded inside and out with passengers and with their neatly uniformed drivers and conductors, so different in appearance and manner from our own slovenly street-car rowdies, were endeavouring to breast a perfect sea of fiacres which, like a swarm of mosquitoes, appeared to be trying to go in every direction at once, their drivers vociferating torrents of vituperous abuse on every man, woman or beast unfortunate enough to get in their way. —  The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
• Protestant States in 1556 Schwenckfeld was denounced in the most vituperous language of the period, and the civil authorities were urged to proceed against him as a dangerous heretic. —  Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
• Two dusky small boys were quarreling; one was pouring forth a volume of vituperous epithets, while the other leaned against a fence and calmly contemplated him. —  Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I
• Yet howsoever though this is true, nevertheless I must furnish the delicate stomackt Ladies with some sort of weapons, that they may be in a posture of defending themselves against their vituperous enemies: —  The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
• The split in Limerick has long pitted a pro-McCourt majority - which views "Angela's Ashes" as an honest portrait of the poverty and smothering conservatism of bygone Ireland - against a vituperous minority.

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