vituperation

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
vituperation
    n 1: abusive or venomous language used to express blame or
         censure or bitter deep-seated ill will [syn:
         {vituperation}, {invective}, {vitriol}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vituperation \Vi*tu`per*a"tion\, n. [L. vituperatio: cf. OF.
   vituperation. See {Vituperate}.]
   The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.
   [1913 Webster]

         When a man becomes untractable and inaccessible by
         fierceness and pride, then vituperation comes upon him.
                                                  --Donne.
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from The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
VITUPERATION, n.  Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as
suffer from an impediment in their wit.
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "vituperation":
      abuse, assailing, assault, attack, berating, billingsgate,
      bitter words, blackening, blame, calumny, censure, contumely,
      diatribe, execration, hard words, invective, jawing, jeremiad,
      obloquy, onslaught, opprobrium, philippic, rating, revilement,
      scolding, screed, scurrility, tirade, tongue-lashing,
      vilification

    

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