请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 vitriolic
释义

Definition of vitriolic in English:

vitriolic

adjective ˌvɪtrɪˈɒlɪkˌvɪtriˈɑlɪk
  • Filled with bitter criticism or malice.

    vitriolic attacks on the politicians
    vitriolic outbursts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Almost without exception, though, critics saved their most vitriolic attacks for the plan's local contribution requirements.
    • Many who had been, in one way or another, sympathetic to socialism before 1915, now distinguished themselves for their vitriolic attacks on the party of alleged defeatism.
    • This simply will not do, given the play's premises and vitriolic criticism of capitalism.
    • It's the kind of thing where other people's vitriolic criticism of it makes me suspect I'll really like it.
    • Dadaists were known for their vitriolic personal attacks on the people identified with a movement, idea or company they opposed.
    • The intensity of the raw, vitriolic malice in the sibilant voice was beyond anything in even his fevered, psychotic dreams.
    • A feud between academics over Robert Burns' politics has taken a vitriolic turn with a savage attack by one expert on his rival's book.
    • In 1800 he attempted to prevent Adams's re-election by publishing a vitriolic personal attack on him.
    • Polemical works on a variety of religious issues reveal a bitter and vitriolic side to his nature.
    • She has been subjected to a vitriolic attack by a female newspaper columnist for ‘sharing every cough and spit of her agony’.
    • I was appalled to read the mayor's vitriolic attack on the homeless.
    • She has been on the receiving end of other withering and vitriolic attacks from women columnists.
    • One or two turned vitriolic in their public criticism, and one anonymously accused him of fraud.
    • Adapting some of the most celebrated, sexual, raw, bitter and vitriolic love poems ever written, the drama explores the inspiration behind the sonnets.
    • The cabinet meeting was characterised by vitriolic attacks on the unemployed.
    • I'll try not to take his vitriolic attack on the film personally, and hope that audiences will form their own opinions.
    • Such stirring events provoked a range of responses, and those printed here are bitter, mournful, vitriolic, and celebratory in turn.
    • Racism, homophobia, McCarthyism, classism, it's all on display as they try to muzzle those who disagree by vitriolic, personal attack.
    • An irascible bachelor, he was often vitriolic in his criticism of the work of other artists, and jealous of their successes.
    • It is not hard to see how libels and satires might foster conflict, for they offer mostly vitriolic attacks on individuals or vices.
    Synonyms
    acrimonious, rancorous, bitter, caustic, mordant, acerbic, astringent, acid, acrid, trenchant, virulent, spiteful, crabbed, savage, venomous, poisonous, malicious, malignant, malign, pernicious, splenetic
    nasty, mean, cruel, unkind, harsh, ill-natured, evil-intentioned, vindictive, scathing, searing, biting, barbed, wounding, stinging, tart, sharp, rapier-like, razor-edged, cutting, withering, sarcastic, sardonic, irascible
    informal bitchy, catty, slashing
    literary malefic, maleficent
    rare acidulous, mordacious, squint-eyed

Derivatives

  • vitriolically

  • adverb
    • At the same time, Tolstoy vitriolically attacked Lear, eccentrically stating a preference for King Leir.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His writing is lethally sharp and vitriolically funny: the jagged aggressiveness of American speech moulded almost into poetry.
      • How is it that the people of Ontario vitriolically hate the party that gave them more days off, and love the party that slashed health care and turned education into a joke?
      • The only problem I have with this vitriolically elegant production is its speed: this brittle, precise text mustn't be rushed.
      • Green's arrogant belief that he has been dragged down by his environment and peers leads him to vitriolically reject the class he was born into.

Rhymes

alcoholic, anabolic, apostolic, bucolic, carbolic, chocoholic, colic, diabolic, embolic, frolic, hydraulic, hyperbolic, melancholic, metabolic, parabolic, rollick, shambolic, shopaholic, symbolic, workaholic
 
 

Definition of vitriolic in US English:

vitriolic

adjectiveˌvitrēˈälikˌvɪtriˈɑlɪk
  • Filled with bitter criticism or malice.

    vitriolic attacks on the politicians
    vitriolic outbursts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Such stirring events provoked a range of responses, and those printed here are bitter, mournful, vitriolic, and celebratory in turn.
    • One or two turned vitriolic in their public criticism, and one anonymously accused him of fraud.
    • I was appalled to read the mayor's vitriolic attack on the homeless.
    • Almost without exception, though, critics saved their most vitriolic attacks for the plan's local contribution requirements.
    • The intensity of the raw, vitriolic malice in the sibilant voice was beyond anything in even his fevered, psychotic dreams.
    • The cabinet meeting was characterised by vitriolic attacks on the unemployed.
    • Adapting some of the most celebrated, sexual, raw, bitter and vitriolic love poems ever written, the drama explores the inspiration behind the sonnets.
    • It's the kind of thing where other people's vitriolic criticism of it makes me suspect I'll really like it.
    • She has been on the receiving end of other withering and vitriolic attacks from women columnists.
    • A feud between academics over Robert Burns' politics has taken a vitriolic turn with a savage attack by one expert on his rival's book.
    • An irascible bachelor, he was often vitriolic in his criticism of the work of other artists, and jealous of their successes.
    • This simply will not do, given the play's premises and vitriolic criticism of capitalism.
    • Dadaists were known for their vitriolic personal attacks on the people identified with a movement, idea or company they opposed.
    • It is not hard to see how libels and satires might foster conflict, for they offer mostly vitriolic attacks on individuals or vices.
    • Racism, homophobia, McCarthyism, classism, it's all on display as they try to muzzle those who disagree by vitriolic, personal attack.
    • Polemical works on a variety of religious issues reveal a bitter and vitriolic side to his nature.
    • Many who had been, in one way or another, sympathetic to socialism before 1915, now distinguished themselves for their vitriolic attacks on the party of alleged defeatism.
    • In 1800 he attempted to prevent Adams's re-election by publishing a vitriolic personal attack on him.
    • She has been subjected to a vitriolic attack by a female newspaper columnist for ‘sharing every cough and spit of her agony’.
    • I'll try not to take his vitriolic attack on the film personally, and hope that audiences will form their own opinions.
    Synonyms
    acrimonious, rancorous, bitter, caustic, mordant, acerbic, astringent, acid, acrid, trenchant, virulent, spiteful, crabbed, savage, venomous, poisonous, malicious, malignant, malign, pernicious, splenetic
 
 
随便看

 

英语词典包含464360条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/20 22:24:34