(n.) A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting.
(v. i.) To make an harangue; to declaim.
(v. t.) To address by an harangue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(2) Both harangued Brian from the outset calling it "a squalid little film" and "tenth rate"; no amount of measured argument on the Pythons part would dissuade the pious double act of their firmly held belief that Life of Brian mocked Christ.
(3) I didn't constantly harangue married friends about how often they had sex, so why should they ask me?
(4) When I first saw the film, I remember being stunned with Allen's sheer audacity in the scene where he remembers his old schoolroom, sitting alongside kids who harangue him in adult language about his sexual precocity: "For God's sake, Alvy, even Freud speaks of a latency period!"
(5) Once I had harangued a friend into joining, each "twine" (message) took about a minute to load.
(6) Two players were then booked for taking their protests too far and Matic was swiftly followed down the tunnel by the assistant first-team coach, Silvino Louro, who was dismissed for haranguing the fourth official, while Mourinho disappeared from the dugout after the break.
(7) On the day, however, he opted not to, and instead harangued his fellow leaders for not spending enough on enough .
(8) Spart harangues the ear with gobbledegook intelligible to the splinterists of the People’s Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Front, but unintelligible to anyone else.
(9) Fiorina then went on to harangue Clinton for accusing the GOP of “trying to disenfranchise poor people and minorities”.
(10) Delivering the prestigious Hugh Cudlipp lecture, Dacre harangued what he dubbed the "subsidariat" of newspapers - in which he included the Times and the Guardian - which do not turn a profit and are "consumed by the kind of political correctness that is patronisingly contemptuous of what it describes as ordinary people".
(11) Occasionally, a visiting international would turn up and harangue his team.
(12) At the launch of her book last week, she was harangued by a group of pro-prostitution campaigners.
(13) Against this drip-feed of bad publicity UBS fielded several court benches worth of firepower: there every day were a varying lineup of solicitors from the City law firm Herbert Smith, the leading fraud barrister Allison Clare and a phalanx of phone-wielding PR enforcers who intermittently harangued reporters during breaks if they disliked what had been filed.
(14) He was particularly active on immigration cases, and would regularly use written parliamentary questions to harangue the relevant secretary of state for not answering his letters promptly.
(15) He intervened several times during proceedings to express his admiration and sympathy for the plight of police officers that day, and harangued Asian witnesses when there was a translation error.
(16) For extra effect, Lyndon Johnson installed a hydraulic “king chair” on board his Air Force One, which enabled him to hover in midair as he harangued the congressmen he invited into his cabin.
(17) Spicer harangued the press corps for allegedly misleading the nation about the audience for Trump’s inauguration , then refused to take questions and left.
(18) He has been known to call phone-in programmes to harangue his critics and lambasted the Mexican press as “clowns disguised as journalists” before their qualification match in the Azteca.
(19) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a PAC hearing in this way.” He suggested that “many” professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(20) At the Middle East Technical University, famous for its leftist spirit, plastic bullets were fired at about a thousand students who wanted to march on the ministry of energy after they had first been harangued by police chiefs.
Inveigh
Definition:
(v. i.) To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is easy simply to inveigh against the situation, the way that both Russia and the west are more interested in asserting their own position (and virtue) than engaging with the other’s.
(2) Indeed, continually depicting Muslims as the supreme evil - even when compared to the west's worst monsters - is par for Harris' course, as when he inveighed : Unless liberals realize that there are tens of millions of people in the Muslim world who are far scarier than Dick Cheney, they will be unable to protect civilization from its genuine enemies."
(3) He caught sight of Marine Le Pen on a TV politics show in 2007, inveighing against the European Union in the pugnacious style she honed as a lawyer, warning the government to “stop taking the people for fools”.
(4) A Christian humanist with a healthy respect for Islam, he was a member of the academic elite; yet he inveighed against academic professionalism, venturing into territories well outside his area of speciality, insisting always that the true intellectual's role must be that of the amateur, because it is only the amateur who is moved neither by the rewards nor the requirements of a career, and who is therefore capable of a disinterested engagement with ideas and values.
(5) Erdogan inveighed against the international media, blaming the BBC and CNN for distorting the drama of the past three weeks in what he repeatedly alleged was an international plot to divide and diminish Turkey.
(6) A group of Democrats, flanked by family members of gun violence victims, were at times brought to tears during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday following the murder of 49 people in a gay club in Orlando over the weekend, as they inveighed against an epidemic that kills an average of 90 Americans each day and vowed to force Republicans on the record on the issue.
(7) When Jacqui Smith was home secretary, she was inveighing against irresponsible drink promotions such as "50p shots until midnight" and "all you can drink for a tenner" nights.
(8) With bogus indignation Cameron inveighed against the “merry-go-round” of tax credits – and indeed the state shouldn’t need to subsidise misery wages.
(9) She inveighs against the "gravediggers" of Brussels, whose austerity measures are held responsible for the scourge of mass unemployment and economic stagnation.
(10) However, several aspects of the data inveigh against the significance of the findings with regard to narcotic mechanisms.
(11) I inveighed against the callous manipulation of public attitudes against claimants by the popular press that has driven many people to turn a blind eye to the real agenda.
(12) From the chancellor who inveighed against Labour's culture of debt and the government that vowed to focus on rebalancing the economy, Help to Buy smacks either of hypocrisy or an admission of defeat.
(13) The author argues that Zoellner's case that these matters are experimental questions rested on arguments which Hermann von Helmholtz, inveighing against rationalist views of space and space perception, had recently published.
(14) In the thesis , called “The Republican Party’s Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of The Decade,” McDonnell argued that government must promote “the traditional two-parent, one-earner family.” The thesis inveighed against women in the workplace, grouped feminism with the “real enemies of the traditional family” and warned against “cohabitators, homosexuals, or fornicators.” It made McDonnell look, to some eyes, like a fundamentalist, out of step with centrist Virginia voters.
(15) Almost daily John Paul inveighed against the " culture of death " – abortion, contraception, homosexuality, divorce, sex before marriage, and the use of condoms even between partners with HIV.
(16) In his first visit outside Rome since becoming pope, Francis visited recently arrived migrants on the island of Lampedusa on Monday, lambasting the rich world for its lack of concern for their suffering and inveighing against a "globalisation of indifference".
(17) During the 80s his act turned steadily more political as he inveighed against the corruption that was steadily engulfing Italy under its then Socialist prime minister, Bettino Craxi.
(18) Dr Robin Russell-Jones Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire • Simon Jenkins is right to inveigh against the habit of politicians keeping the populace in a state of fear.