Vocabulary
Vitriolic
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
filled with bitter criticism or malice.
Urdu meaning
پرجوش، جلی کٹی
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- He flew instead to Bihar the next day where he announced in a vitriolic speech the decision to `hunt down the terrorists and punish their backers`.
- The views of some other nominated members of the incoming Trump administration on the Palestinian issue are no less vitriolic.
- It may not present an immediate threat to the Shehbaz government but there is a real danger of it all turning more vitriolic, with the administration struggling to find its moorings.
- That the relatively tepid communal comment may be testing the waters for a more vitriolic polarisation is not lost on Mamata Banerjee.
Synonyms
acrimonious, rancorous, bitter, caustic, mordant, acerbic, astringent, acid, acrid
Curator example
“vitriolic attacks on the politicians”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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