How to Use vituperative in a Sentence

vituperative

adjective

• His emails contained vile, vicious and vituperative language, which gushed from the decadence embedded in his heart.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2021
• The show is despite all this, somehow, a comedy, full of vituperative one-liners and thistle-sharp insults.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 18 June 2020
• Mandarin speakers often told me how unwelcome they were made to feel, and sometimes went on to talk about Cantonese speakers in vituperative terms.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• The slippery slope of civil-rights erosion is manifest every time certain members of the vituperative left open their mouths.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017
• For someone known for his trolling and vituperative outbursts, Boll is also an instantly likeable and convivial host.
  — Grant Harder, VanityFair.com, 27 Mar. 2017
• What’s more, the world remains afflicted by a lethal pandemic and the United States is enduring a vituperative and divisive election campaign.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2020
• But vituperative disagreements over trade miss the point — trade relations are dwarfed in importance by capital flows.
  — Wade Jacoby, Washington Post, 30 May 2017
• His current place of work embodies a neighbourly bond that is tightening even as politics becomes more vituperative.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• Sixty-three percent of those surveyed after Wednesday’s vituperative exchange said that the centrist candidate put in a stronger performance.
  — Isobel Finkel, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2017
• But the Congress that reconvenes this week will be bruised from vituperative electioneering and distracted by races that remain unresolved.
  — WIRED, 14 Nov. 2022
• Egged on by the vituperative conservative media, even some Republicans who disapprove of Mr Trump are wedded to such tactics.
  — The Economist, 24 Feb. 2018
• People are more vituperative with one another and going after each other.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 May 2022
• Daphne vilified him, for this and other fumbles, in an increasingly vituperative tone.
  — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
• Kicking off a midcareer surge, Streep brings a thrilling, fierce originality to her vituperative fashion guru.
  — Chris Hewitt, Star Tribune, 8 Dec. 2020
• The tweet was blasted by many Republican leaders and members of the Senate and Congress who believe the president’s crude vituperative remarks risk derailing the party's legislative agenda.
  — Stephen Battaglio, latimes.com, 29 June 2017
• Even so, Biden should be able to push through some measures that garner bipartisan support, such as another round of stimulus payments, an infrastructure bill, and a less vituperative trade policy.
  — Tom Keane, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2021
• But less conspicuous, less vituperative voices within corridors of power do just as much damage.
  — Siva Vaidhyanathan, The New Republic, 7 Dec. 2022
• His asking price for reimbursement in January went up after a vituperative letter in October to the university.
  — Joe Heim, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2023
• By contrast, the years-long battle with Vertex was characterized by vituperative remarks and unusual public posturing.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 24 Oct. 2019
• Renata’s weakness lies in her inability to square her fear of being disliked with her vituperative personality.
  — Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 3 June 2022
• Her decision to decline the Genesis Award — and the vituperative reaction to that act of dissent — reflects the reality that the Israeli government is no longer interested in indulging the diaspora’s effete concern for the Palestinians’ welfare.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Apr. 2018
• Rajneesh continued giving press interviews and making vituperative comments throughout the rest of July, August, and early September.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018
• One of Temur’s texts, read aloud during cross-examination, stood out as especially vituperative, not to mention anatomically impossible.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2021
• By definition, presidential campaigns are anxious affairs, often defined by vituperative rhetoric and high-volume antics.
  — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• Their allegiance was met by this unholy alliance of perfidious greed devolving rapidly into the audacity of vituperative unparalleled predatory rapacity.
  — Fortune, 31 Aug. 2017

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