Citations:vitriolic

Adjective

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• 1911, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, "Larra, Mariano José de", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

  ministers feared his vitriolic pen and courted him assiduously.

• 1918, James E. Homans editor, "Springer, Marguerite Warren" in The Cyclopædia of American Biography:

  her subtle wit and vitriolic satire give zest to her most ordinary conversation.

• 1920, George Edwin Rines editor, "Hedin, Sven Anders", The Encyclopedia Americana:

  The result was a book entitled ‘A People in Arms’ (Leipzig 1915), in which the author poured out a torrent of vitriolic abuse over Great Britain and of fulsome adulation for everything German.