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Antonyms for vituperate

Grammar : Verb
Spell : vahy-too-puh-reyt, -tyoo-, vi-
Phonetic Transcription : vaɪˈtu pəˌreɪt, -ˈtyu-, vɪ-

Definition of vituperate

Origin :
  • 1540s, from Latin vituperatus, past participle of vituperare (see vituperation). "Not in common use until the beginning of the 19th c." [OED]. Related: Vituperated; vituperating.
  • verb criticize harshly
Example sentences :
  • Jolly, to abuse or vituperate, sometimes to bear up or bonnet.
  • Extract from : « The Slang Dictionary » by John Camden Hotten
  • Bibliolators may vituperate us, persecute us, or imprison us, but they cannot refute us.
  • Extract from : « Comic Bible Sketches » by George W. Foote
  • Useless to argue with the tradesmen, to expostulate, to vituperate.
  • Extract from : « The Roll-Call » by Arnold Bennett
  • Deviation from scenic propriety has only to vituperate itself for the consequences it generates.
  • Extract from : « Rejected Addresses » by James Smith
  • Literature and the pulpit were inevitably the interpreters that she employed to vituperate the sins of the people.
  • Extract from : « The Cathedral » by Joris-Karl Huysmans
  • They vituperate the humanists in comically bad Latin, which is perhaps the best part of the joke.
  • Extract from : « An Introduction to the History of Western Europe » by James Harvey Robinson
  • Bespatter it, vituperate against it, strongly insist that any man or woman harbouring it is a fool or a knave, or both.
  • Extract from : « The Story of an African Farm » by (AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner
  • We may abuse, revile, vituperate an absent person; but we can only "blackguard" a man when he is present.
  • Extract from : « Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851 » by Various
  • He could offer no counter argument to them, but continued to vituperate the sins of the white people.
  • Extract from : « The Conquest » by Oscar Micheaux
  • On occasion he could stoop to praise one party and vituperate another, but that was his tongue serving his worldly interest.
  • Extract from : « Lewis Rand » by Mary Johnston

Synonyms for vituperate

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