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vituperative
CIDE DICTIONARY
vituperative, a.
Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive. [1913 Webster]
"Vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
vituperative
Rabelaisian, abusive, acid, belittling, biting, blackening, blameful, blasphemous, calumniatory, calumnious, castigatory, censorious, comminatory, condemnatory, contemptuous, contumelious, critical, cursing, damnatory, damning, defamatory, denunciatory, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, derisive, derogatory, detractory, dirty, disparaging, dysphemistic, epithetic, excommunicative, excommunicatory, execrating, execrative, execratory, foul, fulminatory, harsh, imprecatory, insulting, invective, inveighing, judgmental, maledictory, malign, objurgatory, obscene, opprobrious, priggish, profane, railing, raw, reproachful, reprobative, reviling, ribald, ridiculing, risque, sarcastic, sardonic, scatologic, scoffing, scolding, scornful, scurrile, scurrilous, severe, slanderous, truculent, vile, vilifying, witheringROGET THESAURUS
vituperative
Disapprobation
N disapprobation, disapproval, improbation, disesteem, disvaluation, displacency, odium, dislike, dispraise, discommendation, blame, censure, obloquy, detraction, disparagement, depreciation, denunciation, condemnation, ostracism, black list, animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism, sardonic grin, sardonic laugh, sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo, bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment, satire, sneer, taunt, cavil, carping, censoriousness, hypercriticism, reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming, correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff, slap, slap on the face, home thrust, hit, frown, scowl, black look, diatribe, jeremiad, jeremiade, tirade, philippic, clamor, outcry, hue and cry, hiss, hissing, sibilance, sibilation, catcall, execration, chiding, upbraiding, exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely, hard words, cutting words, bitter words, evil-speaking, bad language, personality, disapproving, scandalized, disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative, defamatory, satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon, censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical, fastidious, sparing of praise, grudging praise, disapproved, chid, in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved, unblest, at a discount, exploded, weighed in the balance and found wanting, blameworthy, reprehensible, to blame, worthy of blame, answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of, bad, vicious, unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied, with a wry face, reproachfully, Int, it is too bad!, it won't do, it will never do!, marry come up!, Oh!, come!, 'sdeath!, forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora!, O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!.For further exploring for "vituperative" in Webster Dictionary Online