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invective

Lexicon of musical invective

By Nicolas Slonimsky

The gentle art of verbal self-defense

By Suzette Haden Elgin

The snark handbook

By Lawrence Dorfman

The art of satire

By David Worcester

Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens

By Nancy Worman

The art of satire

By David Worcester

Viva la repartee

By Mardy Grothe

Sticks and Stones

By Jerome Neu

Shakespeare's Insults

By William Shakespeare,Wayne F. Hill,Cynthia J. Ottchen

Encyclopedia of Swearing

By Geoffrey Hughes

Ditelo con gli insulti

By Marco Zanni

Awa'An'Bile Yer Heid!

By David Ross,Rupert Besley

Emperors and bishops in late Roman invective

By Richard Flower

Snark

By David Denby

Doug's big comeback

By Nancy E. Krulik

The Big Book of Being Rude

By Jonathon Green

Stiff Upper Lips and Baggy Green Caps

By Simon Briggs

Your Mother's Tongue

By Stephen Burgen

Nigger in You

By J. W. Wiley

Slang and euphemism

By Richard A. Spears

Toxic people

By Lillian Glass

Making hostile words harmless

By Kate Cohen-Posey

On Invectives in Natural Language

By Agnieszka Grzasko

How to be really funny

By Mark Stolzenberg