Citations:vitriolic

Adjective

 * 1911, James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, "Larra, Mariano José de", 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
 * ministers feared his vitriolic pen and courted him assiduously.
 * 1918, James E. Homans editor, "Springer, Marguerite Warren" in The Cyclopædia of American Biography:
 * her subtle wit and vitriolic satire give zest to her most ordinary conversation.
 * 1920, George Edwin Rines editor, "Hedin, Sven Anders", The Encyclopedia Americana:
 * The result was a book entitled ‘A People in Arms’ (Leipzig 1915), in which the author poured out a torrent of vitriolic abuse over Great Britain and of fulsome adulation for everything German.