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What does vitriolic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (chemistry) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from or resembling vitriol; vitriolous.
  2. (figuratively) Bitterly scathing, caustic.
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These are some pretty hardcore vitriolic comments mixed with anger and if you notice, they take a sideswipe at us too for printing them.
These discoveries provide sharp contrast to the vitriolic animadversions of Walsingham et al.
I am very happy with the school and I feel the vitriolic tone of the writing needs comment.
Had he been as hateful and vitriolic about ethnic minorities, that letter would never have been printed.
Television covered vitriolic exchanges between politicians, and riotous confrontations on the streets.
Film critics have rarely been so united in their antipathy, so vitriolic in their condemnation.

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