Vituperative vs Derogatory - What's the difference?
vituperative | derogatory |
marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing
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Tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.
* (rfdate) (Blackstone).
* (rfdate) (Macaulay).
(legal) When referring to a clause in a testament: a sentence of secret character inserted by the testator alone, of which he reserves the knowledge to himself, with a condition that no will he may make thereafter shall be valid, unless this clause is inserted word for word; – a precaution to guard against later wills extorted by violence, or obtained by suggestion. (rfd-sense)
A trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.
As adjectives the difference between vituperative and derogatory
is that vituperative is marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing while derogatory is tending to derogate, or lessen in value of someone; expressing derogation; detracting; injurious.As a noun derogatory is
a trade-line on a credit report that includes negative credit history.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
*derogatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Acts of Parliament derogatory from the power of subsequent Parliaments bind not.
- His language was severely censured by some of his brother peers as derogatory to their other.