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verb

vituperate

to blame or insult someone in strong or violent language

In a sentence

Six example sentences with vituperate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Critics of the period would vituperate at length in the quarterlies, where a hostile review could run forty pages.

    Literature

  • The Salon's rejection led the painter to vituperate against the academy in nearly every letter he wrote that year.

    Art

  • Reviewers vituperated when the symphony premiered, calling it mere noise, and the same paper praised it nine years later.

    Music

  • Talk radio hosts vituperate against the council every morning, and the members have stopped answering their phones.

    Politics

  • Fans behind the bench vituperated the referee after the fourth foul call, and security moved three of them upstairs.

    Basketball

  • The director vituperated the studio in interviews for a decade, blaming its recut for every review the film received.

    Movies

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