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• s  harsh or corrosive in tone
  a vitriolic critique
• s  of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action

• Shaw reserved some vitriolic criticism for the government's method of flood relief.
• The vitriolic right-wing leader's attempt to rally the people with some mean spirited tirade fell flat.
• The company spokesman's vitriolic tirade against the rival company has engendered dismay and outrage in the corporate community.

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• acerbic
• acid
• acrid
• bitter
• blistering
• caustic
• sulfurous
• sulphurous
• virulent
• corrosive
• erosive
• mordant

News & Articles

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• The Wall Street Journal's Citi Bike Critic Responds To Her Haters [Video]
  Last week, the Wall Street Journal posted a vitriolic video attack against New York City's new bike share program, Citi Bike. In it, editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz called the bike lobby an "all-powerful enterprise" ( a questionable allegation ), and described Mayor Bloomberg as "totalitarian."
  June 7, 2013 - Business Insider
• Keith Olbermann Has Found a Way Back to Television
  TBS's Major League Baseball post-season coverage will be graced by everyone's favorite vitriolic television host: Keith Olbermann. Olbermann, who was fired from Current TV in March of last year, is returning to TV to lead TBS's studio show, The Hollywood Reporter's Marisa Guthrie writes. Olbermann will host the Atlanta-based show along with Dennis Eckersley. TBS has rights to the the Wild Card ...
  June 5, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News
• Two months removed from Rescue Squad closure, Downe Township no closer to solution
  Several more hours of rancor and vitriolic argument between, and among, the township committee and members of the now decommissioned Downe Rescue Squad 36 on Monday night left the two sides no closer to a solution.
  June 5, 2013 - Bridgeton News

Quotes

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• Mel Gibson in MTV.com
  I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words,said Gibson, who entered rehab for alcohol abuse on Monday.
• Sylvester Stallone in Forbes
  The quotes were pretty vitriolic about the idea of making the film,Stallone said.