[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

vituperative \vitu"perative\, a.
   uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by,
   abuse; scolding; abusive. -- vitu"peratively, adv.
   1913 webster

         vituperative appellations derived from their real or
         supposed ill qualities.                  --b. jonson.
   1913 webster
see also:
vitu"peratively 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

vituperative
     adj : marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing remarks
           about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative railing"
           syn: scathing, blistering, scalding
see also:
scathing blistering scalding 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

75 moby thesaurus words for "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, withering

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