Vituperative vs False - What's the difference?
vituperative | false |
marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between vituperative and false
is that vituperative is marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.vituperative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities.
Jeffrey St. Clair]], [[http://www.counterpunch.org www.counterpunch.org]
- 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
*false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}