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Today's Word "vituperate"

To find fault with on

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vituperate \vy-TOO-puh-rate, -TYOO-, vi-\ (verb) - To find fault with; to scold; to overwhelm with wordy abuse; to censure severely or abusively; to rate.

"The incensed priests...continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin." -- Sir Walter Scott, 'Ivanhoe'

 

Vituperate comes from Latin vitupero, vituperare, to scold, blame, censure.


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