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Vitriolic

adjective

Harsh or corrosive in tone. Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent. "A barrage of acid comments" , "Her acrid remarks make her many enemies" , "Bitter words" , "Blistering criticism" , "Caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics" , "A sulfurous denunciation" , "A vitriolic critique"

Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action. Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, erosive, mordant.

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"Vitriolic" Quotes from Famous Books

... into the log chapel long before the services began—every soul, that is, but Inez. Mr. Fowler never had been more eloquent and never, probably, had preached to a more deeply interested congregation. His sermon was a vitriolic arraignment, thinly disguised by Biblical nomenclature, ...

— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie

... by that bland preachment than he would have been by vitriolic insult. While he marched back to the table he prefaced his arraignment of Morrison by calling him an impudent pup. He dwelt on that subject with all his power of ...

— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day

... that he made 3,000 pounds by his agricultural writings. The pen brought him more profit than the plough. He took a hundred acres in Hertfordshire, and said of them, "I know not what epithet to give this soil; sterility falls short of the idea; a hungry vitriolic gravel—I occupied for nine years the jaws of a wolf. A nabob's fortune would sink in the attempt to raise good arable crops in such a country. My experience and knowledge had increased from travelling and practice, but all ...

— A Tour in Ireland - 1776-1779 • Arthur Young

Words linked to "Vitriolic" : destructive, unpleasant, vitriol