vituperous

• “I can take you to Jackson right now and have lunch with seven Hillys - they haven't changed," he added, referring to the vituperous society lady played by Bryce Dallas Howard.”

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• “For a decade I had enormous fun turning out a lively and occasionally vituperous weekly column for the Sunday Times but I gave this up in August 2005 to focus on real writing.”

  David Hewson, author of the acclaimed Nic Costa mystery series set in Italy, describes his long journey to becoming a published author.....

• “This joke was nothing compared to some of the vituperous invective that her supporters have thrown at the Obama family.”

  Palin accepts apology but says time for change

• “This woman made a name for herself by inciting the hatred and fear that is behind these vituperous outbursts, and now she has the nerve to tell the monsters she created to be quiet?”

  Palin urges restraint at town hall meetings

• “He was just striking back, as only a harpy who has been wronged can; through vicious, vituperous, and small minded gossip.”

  "The disdain is palpable," Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry writes about Andrew Sullivan writing about me.

• “The Gore team had a vigorous (more like vituperous) debate about whether Bill Clinton would be a help or a hindrance on the campaign trail, with some fearing his associations to impeachment and others pointing to his high approval ratings, particularly for his job performance as President.”

  Drew Westen: What Polls Can and Can't Tell Us in Presidential Politics

• “Yay, verily, I shalt not fear, for the Evil E and her minions will shackle the vituperous Schaffer and maketh him speak once more.”

  ON THE BUBBLE WITH DYLAN SCHAFFER

• “The exchange between myself and Professor Solum illustrates some of these difficultiesrather poorly, as the argument has been neither vituperous nor highly technical, which I consider fortunateand how they are barriers to both communication and to advancing the state of the law.”

  Scrivener's Error

• “One vituperous look for the landlord, then into the rain again.”

  The White Rose

• “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

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