vituperative

Etymology

Formed from Latin vituperātiō (“a blaming, censuring”).

adj

1. Marked by harsh, spoken, or written abuse; abusive, often with ranting or railing.
   […] Lady Mary saw as clearly into the bodies, and I believe souls, of every servant who approached her, as if they had been cased in chrystal. And she saw so many foulnesses there, and so many aberrations, that Lady Mary’s language was almost wholly moral and vituperative. 1792, Robert Bage, “chapter 81”, in Man As He Is, volume 3, London: William Lane, page 257
   1875, William Gifford, footnote to Act IV, Scene 2 of Every Man in His Humour in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: Bickers & Son, Volume I, p. 106, […] our ancestors, who were not very delicate, nor, generally speaking, much overburthened with respect for the feelings of foreigners, had a number of vituperative appellations derived from their real or supposed ill qualities, of many of which the precise import cannot now be ascertained.
   […] she […] proceeded, without a pause, to pour out a rolling flood of vituperative Latin, in which reproof, indignation, and sarcastic pleasantries followed one another with astonishing volubility. 1928, Giles Lytton Strachey, “Chapter 9”, in Elizabeth and Essex, New York: Harcourt, Brace, page 144
   The injunction also became a pretext for yet another round of vituperative cant from Idaho’s reactionary congressional delegation. 16 August 2008, Jeffrey St. Clair, “Last Stand in the Big Woods”, in CounterPunch