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单词 vitriol
释义
vitriol
noun[U]
uk
/ˈvɪt.ri.əl/us
/ˈvɪt.ri.əl/
violenthateandangerexpressedthroughseverecriticism:
尖刻；辛辣
He is awriterwho has often beencriticizedby thepressbut never beforewithsuch vitriol.他是一位常受媒体批评的作家，但以前从未遭到如此尖刻的批评。
Synonyms
bile
invectiveformal
spite(HURT)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feelings of dislike and hatred
  • abhorrence
  • abomination
  • anathema
  • animosity
  • animus
  • disgust
  • dislike
  • distaste
  • distastefully
  • enmity
  • loathing
  • misandrist
  • misandry
  • misanthrope
  • misanthropy
  • repulsion
  • self-loathing
  • sore point
  • technophobe
  • transmisogyny
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Disapproving & criticizing

Related words

vitriolic
vitriolically
(Definition ofvitriolfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofvitriol

vitriol
The instructions for producing "silvervitriol" (silver nitrate), however, contain an interesting detail that indicates the beginning of a new explanation.
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Thevitriolhitherto hidden in the notes slowly wafted up into the body of the text, death shuffling close behind.
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Nor is there is any concrete political program behind thevitriol.
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Historians of chemistry have not noticed until now that the possibility that naturalvitriolwas a heterogeneous composition of copper and sulfuric acid was not at all considered.
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The latter phenomenon was irreconcilable with the idea that a "vitriol" is an "extract" and with the notion that all mineral acids function only as mechanical instruments of pulverization.
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Beguin gives precise quantitative instructions as to the weight of the silver used and of the "vitriol" obtained.
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The affinity maintained the unity of the "artificial bluevitriol" and was given as the cause for the possibility that this substance might be separated by means of iron.
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Rachel's actual indictment concerned only the relatively petty crime of fraud, which nonetheless occasioned an astounding degree ofvitriolamong her contemporaries.
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We manufacture many things which are highly dangerous, such asvitrioland arsenic.
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Those are the people at the coal face, soaking up thevitriolthat comes in their direction—for doing what?
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He used all thevitriolpossible this afternoon.
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Why are we having all this syntheticvitriol?
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Far too often there has been a tendency forvitriolto creep in.
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Two men positioned themselves directly behind me and from them came a constant stream ofvitriol.
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It is not about employment, it is about keeping the anti-trade unionvitriolon the boil.
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