Vituperative vs Reprimand - What's the difference?
vituperative | reprimand |
marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing
* 1598 :
* 2009 " [
A severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.
* Macaulay
To reprove in a formal or official way.
* 1983 . Rosen, Stanley. Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine’s Press. p. 62.
As an adjective vituperative
is marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing.As a noun reprimand is
a severe, formal or official reproof; reprehension, rebuke, private or public.As a verb reprimand is
to reprove in a formal or official way.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
*reprimand
English
Noun
(en noun)- Goldsmith gave his landlady a sharp reprimand for her treatment of him.
Verb
(en verb)- He is struck by Antinous, who is in turn reprimanded by one of the “proud young men” courting Penelope: