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vitriolic

/vi-tree-ol-ik/US // ˌvɪ triˈɒl ɪk //UK // (ˌvɪtrɪˈɒlɪk) //

尖刻的,尖刻,尖锐的,尖锐

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or resembling vitriol.
    • : obtained from vitriol.
    • : very caustic; scathing: vitriolic criticism.

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Examples

  • As diners seek a return to normalcy, servers and chefs are bearing the brunt of vitriolic responses to safety measures for the pandemic still in progress

  • The two groups butted heads at rallies, during school board meetings and in vitriolic social media exchanges.

  • She adds that vitriolic comments from some Australians on social media showing no sympathy for other citizens like her stuck in India have been hard to bear.

  • While some Americans are experiencing a renewed appreciation for teachers’ crucial role in the fabric of our society, we are also witnessing a vitriolic backlash against teachers’ unions.

  • If Aaron, with tensions so high in Atlanta after receiving so many vitriolic threats, had slugged the teens, reasonable people would have understood why.

  • The experience left them sanguine about the sometimes vitriolic opinions of strangers on the Internet.

  • For women on the Internet, vitriolic abuse is simply a fact of life.

  • By the time Budden began the final round, the audience was vitriolic, already turned against him.

  • In August: Osage County, Streep and Roberts play mother and daughter in a deranged and vitriolic Oklahoman family.

  • There are no calls for intifada here, no rabid accusations of genocide or similarly vitriolic pronouncements.

  • This kind of air extinguishes a candle, and, like vitriolic acid air, one measure of it saturates two of alkaline air.

  • Fluor acid air is procured by dissolving the earthy substance called fluor in vitriolic acid.

  • The nitrous acid may be exhibited in the form of air, as well as the vitriolic, the marine, and the fluor acids.

  • One measure of this air saturates two of alkaline air, and with it forms the vitriolic ammoniac.

  • It is less capable of concentration than the vitriolic or nitrous acids, perhaps from a more intimate union of phlogiston with it.