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Words to describe people

This week’s words
equanimous
mumpish
compunctious
vituperative
ingenious

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PRONUNCIATION:

(vy-TOO-puhr-uh-tiv, -TYOO-, vi-)

MEANING:

adjective: Criticizing bitterly, scathing, abusive.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin vituperare (to blame), from vitium (fault) + parare (to make or prepare). Earliest documented use: 1727.

USAGE:

“Korean Internet users are capable of being equally vituperative, particularly over the disputed island of Tokto.”
Richard Lloyd; McDonald’s Serves Up Asian Bowing Row; The Times (London, UK); Apr 14, 2016.

See more usage examples of vituperative in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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