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vituperation: synonyms: obloquy, invective, ~traducement ???

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Definition:

bitter and abusive language
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n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.

^{Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary}

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But men who are too far apart to cross swords in argument may yet hurl at each other the missiles of vituperation, and there were plenty of combatants to engage in that sort of warfare with Voltaire, Rousseau, and the Encyclopaedists.

Edward Jackson Lowell. The Eve of the French Revolution

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Emma, giving up all chance of hearing any details, left the pharmacy; for Monsieur Homais had taken up the thread of his vituperations. However, he was growing calmer, and was now grumbling in a paternal tone whilst he fanned himself with his skull-cap.

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary

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two cats, of a greedy and vituperative turn, entering at a hole in the wall, leaped up with a flourish a la Catalani, and alighting opposite one another on my visage, betook themselves to indecorous contention for the paltry consideration of my nose.

Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: Loss of Breath (1832)

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English prejudice against the Scots, although riddled with contempt rather than fear, was equally vituperative

Antonia Fraser. Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot, p.10 (1996)