Vituperative vs Contumelious - What's the difference?
vituperative | contumelious |
marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing
* 1598 :
* 2009 " [
(archaic, literary) Rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.
* 1879 ,
As adjectives the difference between vituperative and contumelious
is that vituperative is marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing while contumelious is rudely contemptuous; showing contumely; insolent or disdainful.vituperative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities.
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- The injunction also became a pretext for yet another round of Vituperative cant from Idaho's reactionary congressional delegation against provoking folks like hippie Roselle.[http://www.counterpunch.org/stclair10302009.html]
Synonyms
* (marked by harsh verbal abuse) abusive, censorious, invective, ranting, scoldingReferences
*contumelious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The pad would not stay on Modestine’s back for half a moment. I returned it to its maker, with whom I had so contumelious a passage that the street outside was crowded from wall to wall with gossips looking on and listening.