Usually means: Bitterly harsh and caustic language.
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  1. vitriolic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. vitriolic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vitriolic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vitriolic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vitriolic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vitriolic, vitriolic: Wordnik
  7. vitriolic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vitriolic: Wiktionary
  9. vitriolic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vitriolic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vitriolic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vitriolic: Dictionary.com
  13. vitriolic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Vitriolic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. vitriolic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. vitriolic: Rhymezone
  17. vitriolic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. vitriolic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. vitriolic: Free Dictionary
  20. vitriolic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. vitriolic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. vitriolic: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. vitriolic: Legal dictionary

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  1. vitriolic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. vitriolic: Medical dictionary

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  1. vitriolic: A Word A Day

(Note: See vitriol as well.)

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adjective:  (inorganic chemistry, dated) Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from or resembling vitriol.
adjective:  (figuratively) Bitterly scathing, caustic.

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