Vituperative means full of harsh, abusive blame — describing speech, writing, or the person producing it. A vituperative letter is one that spends its whole length telling you what is wrong with you, in the ugliest terms it can find. It attaches most naturally to: attack, language, speech, letter, review, editorial, tone, style. Unlike 'vitriolic', which really only describes the words, 'vituperative' can also describe the speaker — 'a vituperative old critic' is perfectly normal English, meaning someone in the habit of abusing people out loud. The two words overlap heavily; if you want a rough split, vitriolic points at bitterness and burn, vituperative points at scolding and blame — vituperative language keeps telling you what you did wrong. It is markedly formal and literary — the vocabulary of book reviews, political history, and law reports. In everyday English you would say 'abusive'. Stress falls on the second syllable: vi-TU-per-a-tive.

謾罵的、痛加斥責的