That chides, that gives loud and vehement utterance to displeasure; brawling, scolding, rebuking.

Using or characterized by denunciatory or railing language; inclined to inveigh; expressing bitter denunciation; vituperative, abusive. Now rare.

Of words, etc.: Pertaining to or characteristic of a villain; vile, scurrilous; offensively opprobrious or profane.

Full of reproach, reproof, or censure; upbraiding, †abusive (obsolete).

That reviles; given to reviling; abusive.

Railing, reviling.

Expressive of blame or censure; vituperative, violently abusive.

= vituperious, adj. 1.

Given to evil-speaking. Of an utterance: slanderous.

Vituperative, strongly abusive or censorious.

Full of abuse; abusive; harmful. In later use frequently used jocularly in contrast with useful.

figurative. Violently bitter, spiteful, or malignant; full of acrimony or enmity. Of speech or writing.

Wrangling, contentious, scolding: cf. cample, v.

Like Thersites in language or address; abusive, reviling, scurrilous.

Characterized by angry words, contentious, quarrelsome.

Of words, language, etc.: Containing, conveying, or expressing strong depreciation; violently abusive or fault-finding; contumelious…

Vituperative.

bitter of speech.

Abusive, vituperative.