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invectivenoun harsh insulting languagehurled curses and invective at the driver who heedlessly cut them off in traffic abuse, billingsgate, fulmination, obloquy, scurrility, vitriol, vituperation blackguardismblasphemy, curse, execration, imprecation, malediction, profanityepithet, insult, put-down, slurexpletive, swearwordaspersion, bad-mouthing, belittlement, disparagement, revilement, vilificationcastigation, chastisement, criticism, excoriation, opprobrium, rebuke, reprimand, reproofbroadside, diatribe, harangue, polemic, tirade acclaim, applause, commendation, praisecompliments, congratulations, endearments, felicitationsadulation, blarney, flattery, overpraise, soft soap marked by harsh insulting languagean overbearing, bullying boss who is fond of sending invective e-mails to long-suffering assistants abusive, contumelious, opprobrious, scurrile(or scurril), scurrilous, truculent, vitriolic, vituperative, vituperatory affronting, insulting, offending, offensive, outrageous, outragingcoarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, foulmouthed, gross, indecent, nasty, obscene, potty-mouthed, vulgarcontemptuous, disdainful, scornfuldefamatory, libelous(or libellous), scandalous, slanderousmaligning, traducing, vilifyinghateful, malevolent, malicious, spitefulimmoderate, intemperate, unbridled, unrestrained moderate, temperatedeferential, respectfulcivil, courteous, gracious, mannerly, politediscreet, judicious, temperedencomiastic, laudative, laudatory, praiseful n.abuse, vituperation, invective, obloquy, billingsgate mean vehemently expressed condemnation or disapproval.abuse, the most general term, usually implies the anger of the speaker and stresses the harshness of the language.scathing verbal abuse vituperation implies fluent and sustained abuse.a torrent of vituperation invective implies a comparable vehemence but suggests greater verbal and rhetorical skill and may apply to a public denunciation.blistering political invective obloquy suggests defamation and consequent shame and disgrace.subjected to obloquy and derision billingsgate implies practiced fluency and variety of profane or obscene abuse.directed a stream of billingsgate at the cabdriver in the 15th century |