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  • noun One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely

Etymologies

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fulminate +β€Ž -or

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Examples

  • When the Fox News fulminator Glenn Beck says β€œlet the banks lose their tails, they need to,” he illustrates precisely where right-wing populism meets that on the left.

    Sunday Reading 2009

  • First, there's the copy generator, the writer of the first draft, the spewer, the fulminator, the would-be artist, the literary personage who is going to tell everyone how it is and do it with turns of phrase so spectacular they actually augur a hole right into the page.

    The Writing Team Joel Achenbach 2011

  • Reporters initially poked fun at the pixie-faced fulminator but Falwell supplied such pithy quotes that it was hard to stay away.

    Diane Winston: Falwell Had a Dream 2008

  • Rae had come a long way in a few months: from a woman who neglected her job to rush to her husband's side every time he snapped his fingers, to a full-scale fulminator.

    The Shape of Dread Muller, Marcia 1989

  • From the daily fulminator he had turned to the weekly medium of fun and fooling, when, from behind another paper, the face of a gray-haired, good-natured appearing person, quite different off the bench, chanced to look out at him.

    Half A Chance Frederic S. Isham

  • In short, for him too, believing is seeing - the guy is just another fulminator, better suited to the world of politics or column-writing.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Rick Groen 2010

  • God-hater and atheist fulminator Christopher Hitchens who assailed Mother Teresa on TV during her funeral and Irish rock singer baldy Sinead O'Connor are the most extreme examples.

    Tom Roeser Jake 2010

  • God-hater and atheist fulminator Christopher Hitchens who assailed Mother Teresa on TV during her funeral and Irish rock singer baldy Sinead O'Connor are the most extreme examples.

    Tom Roeser Jake 2010

  • Yet I don't think I ever read of any anti-Zionist fulminator daring to suggest to Palestinians (or Arabs) that they are pursuing illegitimate goals in forging their nationalist aspirations.

    BobFromBrockley 2009

  • CC - Yet I don't think I ever read of any anti-Zionist fulminator daring to suggest to Palestinians (or Arabs) that they are pursuing illegitimate goals in forging their nationalist aspirations.

    BobFromBrockley 2009

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