vituperousとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

vituperous (comparative more vituperous, superlative most vituperous)

1. (rare) Vituperative.
2. (rare) Worthy of blame.

引用

• 1682, A. Marsh, The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and The Confession of the New-married Couple:

  Yet howsoever though this is true, nevertheless I must furnish the delicate stomackt Ladies with some sort of weapons, that they may be in a posture of defending themselves against their vituperous enemies.

• 1905, Charles Klein, chapter III, in The Lion and The Mouse:

  (...) their drivers vociferating torrents of vituperous abuse on every man, woman or beast unfortunate enough to get in their way.

同意語

• vituperative

関連する語

Further reading

• “vituperous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.