vituperate

1 We may abuse, revile, vituperate an absent person; but we can only "blackguard" a man when he is present.

2 The proposal duly took place in a bunker, while Eileen was whimsically vituperating her ball.

3 In another, people were vituperating the bad weather, and dear Papa said: "Remember, gentlemen, who makes it!"

4 The intolerable injustice of vituperating the bribed to an assembly of bribers, has goaded their sense of justice beyond endurance.

5 Last time we met during the Balkan war I had vituperated him about the cutting off of noses.

6 Then, as the big locomotive slowly pulled them out, some of his new companions vituperated the station-agent for stopping them, and one came near braining him with a deftly-flung bottle when he retaliated.

7 I’ve been pretty much vituperated for some of my business deals, but I never sprung a thing like that on the public.

8 He said a word of sympathy for the universally vituperated Jacobins of the Mountain, because through thick veils of national prejudice and misrepresentation, he felt the impossibility of the Gironde.

9 Now, this class of individuals entertain a mortal hatred for p. 355Lavengro and its writer, and never lose an opportunity of vituperating both. 

10 The right thing to do is to vituperate and scoff at them in their prosperity.

11 He disappeared down the basement steps, and in another minute a harsh voice apparently vituperating him rose up, and when he rejoined his comrade his face was redder than ever.

12 Then, while he hesitated, came suddenly the sound of a shrill, vituperating voice from the house, a voice raised in a solo-like effect, the burden of which seemed both grief and rage, and contumely.

13 I was taken from my nurse’s in a hurry, and, though my clothes were quite new, my face entitled me to rank among the much vituperated unwashed.

14 He would undoubtedly have raised a good deal of temporary excitement by unearthing abuses, and by vituperating persons whom he disliked.

15 Energetic Saturninus was incensed by this enforced idleness: but he could do nothing save vituperate the corruption of the magistracy, the Empire, the whole age, and--wait.

16 Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense.

17 In their attitudes and actions, Republicans routinely curse the Constitution, profane America’s ideals and vituperate its values.

18 But, let us not revile and vituperate those, who are, to all intents and purposes, our brethren, as certainly as if they lived just over the Roxbury line, instead of Mason’s and Dixon’s.

19 Mother.—"Now do be rational, why don't you listen to what I say, instead of vituperating in this manner?"

20 First the guides commenced vituperating the long haired oxen that were wandering beyond the beaten path. 

1 斥责

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2 骂

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3 辱骂

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4 咒骂

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5 说坏话

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7 谴责

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