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vituperate🔊

To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner.

📑 Synonyms: berate scold
💬 Quotations
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

To attack (someone or something) with abusive language; to revile, to vilify.

To use abusive or harsh words.

Of, characterized by, or relating to abusive or harsh criticism.

(rare) Which has been abusively or harshly criticized; also, deserving harsh criticism.

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