virulent
adjective
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Synonyms & Antonyms for virulent
Synonyms
bad [slang], bitchy, catty, cruel, despiteful, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vicious
Antonyms
benevolent, benign, benignant, loving, unmalicious
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Journalists who criticized the government were being trolled and attacked with virulent fervor. — Bilal Qureshi, Washington Post, "Arundhati Roy — beloved for her fiction, derided for her politics — won’t be silenced," 23 Aug. 2019 Fans will surely debate the virulent crowd reaction that reduced Osaka to tears during the trophy presentation and say the Open had never experienced anything like it. — New York Times, "A Night to Remember at the U.S. Open," 22 Aug. 2019 His virulent opposition to India, Pakistan’s blood rival, has made Saeed a folk hero to tens of thousands of followers. — Shashank Bengali, Los Angeles Times, "Trump touts ‘ten year search’ for Pakistani militant, but everyone knew where he was," 17 July 2019 As News Channel 5 Nashville reports, Forrest was a Civil War Confederate general , a slave trader, and an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan—in in other words, a virulent racist. — Breanna Edwards, Essence, "Tennessee Governor Signs Proclamation Honoring Slave Trader, KKK Leader," 15 July 2019 Officials may monitor people who were in close contact with the child for signs of illness, especially if the strain involved was a particularly virulent one. — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, "Death of 9-year-old Milpitas boy to common virus perplexes doctors," 14 July 2019 Soon enough, the foursome are in the back of that truck in an adventure that begins as a moneymaking scheme and promises to become a heroic journey into the heart of white supremacy at its most virulent and addle-minded. — Ann Hornaday, Twin Cities, "‘Sword of Trust’ is a beguiling, smart — and surprisingly deep — comedy," 25 July 2019 In Africa, meanwhile, the vaccine itself is spawning virulent strains. — Leslie Roberts, Science | AAAS, "Surging cases have dashed all hope that polio might be eradicated in 2019," 10 July 2019 That’s not the experience of Chuck Brown, the former SVCF fundraising leader who has now emerged as one of the most virulent critics of Big Philanthropy. — Theodore Schleifer, Vox, "Today’s “working robber barons” have used a tax break to create a $110 billion charity stockpile, called donor-advised funds. It isn’t getting any smaller.," 2 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'virulent.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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