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 Translation for 'vitriolic' from English to French
ADJ   vitriolic | more vitriolic | most vitriolic
SYNO caustic | corrosive | erosive | ...
caustique {adj}vitriolic
critique {f} au vitriol [fig.]vitriolic criticism [fig.]
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  • Awaiting execution, John accepted the counsel of the Reverend Richard Furman, a local minister, but Lavinia became even more vitriolic.
  • Things change after the station is bombed in season 11, causing Tom to go off the rails. Now consumed by his desire for revenge, he becomes vitriolic, angry and downright brutal.
  • The band formed at the end of the 1990s in Birmingham and began playing their own take on the vitriolic Iron Monkey / Eyehategod sludge sound.
  • He was also criticised for his vitriolic attack on various politicians including Speaker and members of the Parliament.
  • After years of vitriolic attacks and death threats from extremist groups, Dr. Calderone retired from SIECUS in 1982, at the age of 78.

  • There were numerous cases against him charged by Kerala Police for making inflammatory speeches and issuing vitriolic communal statements post Babri Masjid demolition.There is nearly 24 cases charged against him in Kerala.
  • Other major critics included Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt, although neither of these was as vitriolic as Sherman.
  • The Atlanta Life Insurance Company, founded in the era of violent white racial animosity and vitriolic Jim Crow segregation, cemented its operational success through a commitment to sustained financial solvency and promptness in paying claims.
  • Late in November 1788, Ledyard accidentally poisoned himself with vitriolic acid (sulfuric acid) and died in Cairo, Egypt on 10 January 1789.
  • Tabloid criticism of Islam4UK and Choudary since news of the proposed march first became public has, generally, been vitriolic, calling him a "hate preacher".

  • Walker and his wife Ethel, née Russell, and was a witness in their vitriolic and highly public divorce.
  • In November 2021, Doe announced the December retirement of "Sexplanations", citing two primary reasons: first, an observation that she was finding her content repetitive, and second, that her mental health had declined from nearly a decade of persistent sexual harassment and vitriolic emails and calls to her personal cell phone.
  • Thomas Lewis (1689–in or after 1737) was an English cleric, noted as a vitriolic High Church writer of the Bangorian controversy.
  • In late 1935 the SS newspaper "Das Schwarze Korps" launched a vitriolic attack on Roselius' "Böttcherstrasse".
  • Both Piras and Emmott became the subjects of vitriolic attacks on Twitter by people who argued the film was a piece of ‘EU propaganda’ despite its strong criticism of the EU institutions.

  • Episode three also reveals the gritty and vitriolic story of Bridie and Vinnie's marriage and is only suitable for those viewers aged 18 and over.
  • was not a war in the true sense, but a relatively bloodless, albeit vitriolic, dispute between the council of the North German town of Lüneburg and the clergy, the owners of the salt industry.
  • Malaysian activist Maryam Lee reportedly received vitriolic backlash and death threats in 2020 for criticizing what she saw as institutional patriarchy in Islam and speaking out about her decision to not wear the hijab.
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