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Discover Ludwig"verbal attack" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it to describe a situation in which someone is using words to intentionally hurt another person's feelings. For example, "He responded to her criticism with a verbal attack, calling her stupid".
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"Inveigh" means to make a verbal attack.
It had gone up into a verbal attack.
Her subsequent verbal attack on him was understandable.
How choreographed was the Giants' verbal attack on Sparks?
Later he vents his frustration on Julie in a violently misogynous verbal attack.
A verbal attack on members of a racial group is an attack on their common humanity.
— Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Shermans during a verbal attack of ESPN's Skip Bayless on Bayless's show "First Take".
An aging young man in a dead-end job hefting boxes, Greg is the recipient of the verbal attack that opens the show.
Clarkson was dropped after an internal report found he was responsible for an "unprovoked physical and verbal attack" on Oisin Tymon.
Clarkson was dropped by the BBC in March 2015 after an "unprovoked physical and verbal attack" that left a colleague bleeding and seeking hospital treatment.
Newcastle manager Graeme Souness has been fined £20,000 and handed a suspended two-match touchline ban following a verbal attack on referee Barry Knight.
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