† vituperiousadj.
Obsolete.
1. Vituperative, strongly abusive or censorious.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > abusive
chidingc1175
invective1430
villainous1470
reproachful1531
reviling1534
oblatranta1538
vituperatory1586
vituperous1588
maledicent1599
vituperious1604
abuseful1612
virulent1631
camping1642
Thersitical1650
wording1682
vituperative1727
vituperatious1797
slangwhanging1809
sharp-tongued1837
vituperant1864
campling1881
Thersitean1908
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [adjective]
opprobriousc1410
invective1430
railinga1470
shameful?a1513
convicious1530
reviling1534
inveighing1568
abusing1586
vituperatory1586
vituperous1588
vituperious1604
abusive1608
invectory1608
conviciatory1611
abuseful1612
conviciating1628
vituperative1727
vituperatious1797
slangwhanging1809
opprobratory1833
1604 M. Drayton Moyses i. 2 Muse, I inuoke the vtmost of thy might,..Gainst the vile Atheists vituperious sting.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 490 To confound the calumnious and vituperious Papists.
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 88 Vituperious Sarcasms, Secret rejoycings at their ruins.
2. Worthy of blame, vituperable; hence, shameful, discreditable, disgraceful, ignominious.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [adjective]
shondly888
frakeda900
shondfula900
foulOE
shendful?c1225
shamelyc1275
shendlyc1275
shamefulc1330
villain1338
inhonest1340
shameworthy1382
shendshipful1382
dishonestc1386
slanderous1402
defamable?a1439
defamousc1450
misshamefulc1450
vituperablec1450
ignominious?a1475
shamevousc1475
inhominious1490
opprobrious?1510
opprobrousc1530
rebukeful1530
dishonourable1533
reproachful1534
disworshipful1539
dedecoratec1540
contumelious1546
spiteful1550
ignomious1571
inglorious1573
disgraceful1595
disgracive1602
vituperous1610
vituperious1612
disgracious1615
disparageable1617
propudious1629
deflowering1642
scandalized1664
dedecorous1755
disgracing1807
vituperate1832
vituperated1842
mighty1889
soddish1922
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > worthy of dispraise > worthy of condemnation
damnablec1380
woefula1400
vituperablec1450
condemnablea1586
reprobate1593
vituperous1610
vituperious1612
censurable1635
1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger i. iv. 281 O what doe I see, and what doe I heare in my dayes, what vituperious crimes?
1624 Gag for Pope 12 Clothed with the Sambenito, a punishment as vituperious as the carting of Bawdes in England.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 15/2 The bearing of these Hellish Vituperious, horrid and vile things, is to deter..the beholder from becoming like them.
Derivatives
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [adverb]
foullyc1400
opprobriouslya1513
revilingly1548
invectivelyc1550
railingly1552
abusively?1593
vituperiously1632
opprobrious1716
vituperatively1831
abusefully1914
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > disgrace or dishonour > [adverb]
shamelyc1200
shendfully?c1225
to one's shamec1275
shamefullya1300
despitouslyc1320
foula1325
shondfullyc1330
inhonestly1340
shendshipfully1388
dishonestlyc1430
shamouslyc1440
ignominiously1553
slanderously1563
reproachfully1567
opprobriously1569
ingloriously1576
dishonourably1590
indignly1593
disgracefully1604
despitely1619
vituperiously1632
to a reproacha1715
shaming1970
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1906) i. 3 The name and fame of the most righteous alive,..be thus diversly taxed and vituperiously calumniated.
1650 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples i. 130 So they concluded to die sooner,..then to live so vituperiously in such a basenesse and servitude.
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