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  • verb Present participle of vituperate.

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Examples

  • At the start of the show, as they're vituperating at opposite ends of the stage, it's hard to imagine why these two married each other—until about 15 minutes in, when suddenly she's straddling his lap and their union becomes more explainable.

    Lost (and Found) in Space Lizzie SImon 2012

  • I believe BO is “vituperating” in that screen capture …

    Think Progress » O’Reilly on ThinkProgress: ‘All Decent Americans Should Reject These Haters’ 2006

  • Still, we can occupy ourselves vituperating on the internet until the electricity gets cut off.

    Bear-faced cheek Johnny Guitar 2008

  • Warburton, the editor and commentator of Shakespeare, and Bishop of Gloucester, using English liberty, and abusing the custom of vituperating against adversaries, has composed four volumes to prove that the immortality of the soul was never announced in the

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • It was on such days, Clara recalled, “that Father created the habit of vituperating the human race.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • It was on such days, Clara recalled, “that Father created the habit of vituperating the human race.”

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • The yeomen separated the incensed priests, who continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin, which the Prior delivered the more fluently, and the Hermit with the greater vehemence.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Persians, having for a long time besieged Amida, and becoming weary of the siege, decided to depart, and having already broken up his camp, all the inhabitants of the town came upon the walls; and having become haughty from [the thought] of victory, did not omit assailing them with every kind of injury, vituperating them, accusing and reproaching them for their cowardice and poltroonery.

    Discourses 2003

  • _ -- "Now do be rational, why don't you listen to what I say, instead of vituperating in this manner?"

    Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island Julia de Winton

  • I overheard some of it, but where any other cook would have been furious at us for not eating her delicious dinner, the dear old soul's rage was all directed against herself, and she was vituperating herself in language which would not have gone through the mails.

    At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

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