vituperate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To criticize (someone or something) in an abusive or harsh manner.

   “[M]y beſt Lady, you knovv, and many better men then he have told you, that I am ſo far from vvronging you vvith a falſhood, that I have maintained your honor vvith the hazzard of my life againſt any that ever durſt vituperate you; […]”

2. fiil To attack (someone or something) with abusive language; to revile, to vilify.

   “A bane to merit, he exerts himſelf to the deſtruction of every valuable virtue in literature, or in life: his pen is ne'er employed but in the abuſing and vituperating the innocent and meritorious; and like a voracious flie, he leaves and diſregards every accompliſhment, to fix upon the only ſore.”

3. fiil To use abusive or harsh words.

   “Governor "Ben" Tillman of South Carolina vituperated back with great fluency and the scene ended by a mutual promise to finish the discussion with more lethal weapons.”

4. sıfat Of, characterized by, or relating to abusive or harsh criticism.

   “The glorification of women as mothers informed the propaganda of the Nazi years but social reality told a different story. In 1933, a vituperate campaign against 'double earners' forced married women, whose husbands were employed, out of the labour market.”

5. sıfat Which has been abusively or harshly criticized; also, deserving harsh criticism.