vituperative

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

vituperative
    adj 1: marked by harshly abusive criticism; "his scathing
           remarks about silly lady novelists"; "her vituperative
           railing" [syn: {scathing}, {vituperative}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Vituperative \Vi*tu"per*a*tive\, a.
   Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by,
   abuse; scolding; abusive. -- {Vi*tu"per*a*tive*ly}, adv.
   [1913 Webster]

         Vituperative appellations derived from their real or
         supposed ill qualities.                  --B. Jonson.
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from 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