VITRIOLIC


Meaning of VITRIOLIC in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

attack

Similarly excessive were de Gaulle's vitriolic attacks on the politicians.

Cope's own sleevenotes have also caused outrage, containing vitriolic attacks on Axl Rose and U2, among others.

There is an evident parallel between Brooke-Rose's vitriolic attack on this social system and her disenchantment with the realist novel.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

She attacked him in a vitriolic seven-page letter to the newspaper.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

The press, too, was irresponsible and factional, given to vitriolic personal attacks and political character assassination.

There was even a second letter - more vitriolic than the first - and the date she meant to send it.

Where does this vitriolic woman get her information from?

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