vitriolic

  • (s) harsh or corrosive in tone
    • an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose
    • a barrage of acid comments
    • her acrid remarks make her many enemies
    • bitter words
    • blistering criticism
    • caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics
    • a sulfurous denunciation
    • a vitriolic critique
    acid, blistering, caustic, acerb, acerbic, acrid, sulfurous, sulphurous, bitter, virulent,
  • (s) of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action corrosive, caustic, erosive, mordant,

Synonyms

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

Words of close approximity

vitriolically