What's the difference between vituperation and vituperative?
Vituperation
Definition:
(n.) The act of vituperating; abuse; severe censure; blame.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Paul Bradshaw, a reader in online journalism at Birmingham City University, thinks the lack of vituperation about Facebook has different reasons.
(2) When Labour was finally returned to power in 1964, her reputation was for division within the party and personal vituperation against enemies outside it.
(3) I've become wearily accustomed to this over my time working with Assange: the vituperation heaped on my author, the scorn directed at me for giving him a platform.
(4) Makoni said: "All this vituperation, my reading of it, is like grapes are sour.
(5) And Levin, like a prosecuting barrister, hunched and coiled with sardonic vituperation, would describe Charles Forte's catering company, to Forte's face, as "lazy, inefficient, dishonest, dirty and complacent".
(6) Despite this, Lawson magnanimously re-employed Waugh as a novel reviewer, where he honed his talent for vituperation, which he later and even more brilliantly practised in the obscure magazine Books & Bookmen.
(7) Their historical narrative is about victimisation by the west: Erdogan has attacked the “making of Sykes-Picot agreements”, in a reference to the 1916 Franco-British carve-up of the Ottoman empire; Putin vituperates against the “so-called victors in the cold war” that have “decided to reshape the world” and “committed many follies”.
(8) One thing is unavoidable, whether seen through the prism of admiration as "Arik the king" or vituperation as "the butcher", Sharon forged his path on the battlefield through the force of his personality, an extraordinary self-belief of his place in history and in his importance.
Vituperative
Definition:
(a.) Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
Example Sentences:
(1) This school of thought has had a massive surge in disciples of late, as the dust settles in the aftermath of the credit crisis; now that the second wave of the credit crunch appears to be upon us, the baying for blood has become even louder and more vituperative.
(2) But most critics, it seemed, were damning and vituperative.
(3) People are afraid because they understand that gay propaganda is banned, and even mentioning LGBT relations is essentially forbidden.” Klimova herself has been the subject of vituperative online commentary after creating Deti-404 in spring 2013.
(4) Gradually, he came to write fewer vituperative articles and more ruminative ones on music (especially Wagner), literature and the arts, though never forsaking his pet hates - lawyers, especially judges, and home secretaries, nor his second love after music - food.
(5) The conspiracy theorists who have taken over Poland Read more With a penchant for conspiracy and a vituperative speaking style, Jarosław Kaczyński routinely brands his opponents “gangsters”, “cronies”, and “reds”.
(6) At a time when much smaller ideological differences are regularly the occasion for vituperative ad hominem attacks, Hobsbawm should serve as an example of how civilised people can differ about big questions while agreeing about much else.
(7) His victory came after one of the most bitter and vituperative run-ups to the prize in living memory - not among the shortlisted writers, but from dismayed and bemused commentators who accused judges of putting populism above genuine quality .
(8) In an extraordinary interview, sometimes humorous and sometimes vituperative, West returned again and again to those who would thwart his desires to expand way beyond music, and to pointing out that black people are routinely denied the opportunities granted to white people.
(9) Defence expenditure has been a longstanding irritant in the North Atlantic alliance, but it was the vituperative nature of Trump’s delivery, combined with his petulant body language, that convinced the allies they had better look to each other if they wanted a sense of direction.
(10) Well, yes, that is the law of our country, not however a nicety often afforded to the victims of his titles, and here I refer not only to hacking but the vituperative portrayal of weak and vulnerable members of our society, relentlessly attacked by Murdoch's ink jackals.
(11) Complaints from early guests, traced by an archaeologist, Gary Marshall, were vituperative.
(12) Earlier this month Murdoch was vituperative about how search engines have aggregated news .
(13) He was the subject of films, cartoons and at least one rock song, by Scritti Politi; he generated both adulatory and vituperative journalism; and he wrote some of the most formidably difficult philosophical works of his time.
(14) The librarians know it's a racket, but they feel powerless to act because if they refused to pay the monopoly rents then their academics – who, after all, are under the cosh of publish-or-perish mandates – would react furiously (and vituperatively).
(15) Fry took aim at the "stinking, sliding, scuttling, weird, entomological creatures" who leave abusive comments on blogs, whose "resentment, their desire to be heard at the most vituperative level, at the most unpleasant and malevolent, genuinely ill-willed malevolent, level is terrifying".
(16) On a less elevated note, all three painters were also the victims of vituperative reviews and critical miscomprehension during their careers.
(17) The Tory MEP Daniel Hannan's vituperative assault on Brown in the European parliament, which became a global internet hit, was named speech of the year, while James Purnell's dramatic call as he quit the cabinet for the PM to "stand aside" secured him resignation of the year from among a larger than -usual field of candidates.
(18) Alain Badiou , venerable Maoist, 75-year-old soixante-huitard, vituperative excoriator of Sarkozy and Hollande and such a controversial figure in France that when he was profiled in Marianne magazine they used the headline "Badiou: is the star of philosophy a bastard?
(19) Next year brings the referendum, and with it a vituperative Tory schism.
(20) During the early phase of this parliament, when the Labour party was often more vituperative about the Lib Dems than it was about the Tories, Ed Miliband used to say that he could "never" imagine himself being in coalition with Nick Clegg .