Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who vituperates; one who censures abusively; a reprehender; a reviler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who vituperates, or censures abusively.
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- noun One who
vituperates , orcensures abusively .
Etymologies
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Examples
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After radio-vituperator Bill Cunningham brought his bile center stage last week, the ugliness of the tirade brought a quick and straight McCain apology.
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The columnist is a right-wing vituperator who usually eschews vogue words, but in this case wrote of “the sort of smashmouth campaign that the Democrats perfected.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The columnist is a right-wing vituperator who usually eschews vogue words, but in this case wrote of “the sort of smashmouth campaign that the Democrats perfected.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The pioneering Gillray drew drawings that drew blood, taking on even the feared journalistic vituperator William Cobbett; by the time the caricaturist died insane in 1815, he had forever saddled the eminent jurist, Buller, with the name “Judge Thumb.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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He opined that the like of, as used by the English vituperator William Cobbett in the late eighteenth century, was “generally in the plural” today.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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He opined that the like of, as used by the English vituperator William Cobbett in the late eighteenth century, was “generally in the plural” today.
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The pioneering Gillray drew drawings that drew blood, taking on even the feared journalistic vituperator William Cobbett; by the time the caricaturist died insane in 1815, he had forever saddled the eminent jurist, Buller, with the name “Judge Thumb.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The best admonition to those who would blithely practice rope-a-trope came from the nineteenth-century vituperator William Cobbett, who told a rival in political pamphleteering, “When I see you flourishing with a metaphor, I feel as much anxiety as I do when I see a child playing with a razor.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The best admonition to those who would blithely practice rope-a-trope came from the nineteenth-century vituperator William Cobbett, who told a rival in political pamphleteering, “When I see you flourishing with a metaphor, I feel as much anxiety as I do when I see a child playing with a razor.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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The best admonition to those who would blithely practice rope-a-trope came from the nineteenth-century vituperator William Cobbett, who told a rival in political pamphleteering, “When I see you flourishing with a metaphor, I feel as much anxiety as I do when I see a child playing with a razor.”
No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003
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