Word to the Wise: Vituperate
To “vituperate” (vy-TOO-puh-rate) – from the Latin – is to censure severely; to overwhelm with wordy abuse.
Example (as used by Sir Walter Scott in Ivanhoe): “The incensed priests… continued to raise their voices, vituperating each other in bad Latin.”
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