Both Uses of
virulent
in
Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
- All over Berlin, such signs were reappearing, and the Nazis' virulently anti-Semitic Der Sturmer, nowhere to be seen during the Games, was back on newsstands.†
p. 37.2
- Just as Allied soldiers, like the cultures they came from, often held virulently racist views of the Japanese, Japanese soldiers and civilians, intensely propagandized by their government, usually carried their own caustic prejudices about their enemies, seeing them as brutish, subhuman beasts or fearsome "Anglo-Saxon devils."
p. 195.1 *virulently = hatefully
Definition:
of disease: very bad -- perhaps very contagious
or
harsh or hateful
or
harsh or hateful