(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.
Lambaste
Definition:
(v. t.) To beat severely.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(2) Prominent pro-Europeans are planning to lambast Cameron for placing a question mark over Britain's EU membership.
(3) And in the last month, it has faced serious allegations about sexual harassment , as early-stage investors have lambasted its “destructive culture” .
(4) The West Ham striker Andy Carroll has lambasted the referee Jon Moss for an unacceptable performance, even accusing the official of trying to even things up by awarding Leicester a stoppage-time penalty.
(5) Kenneth Feinberg, the US treasury department official who is scrutinising pay packages at bailed-out banks, said that Lewis – besieged by regulatory investigations and lambasted by shareholders – should get no salary or bonus for the year.
(6) As members of Congress lined up to lambast her leadership at a hearing on Capitol Hill, Pierson admitted the gravity of the failure and admitted repeated failings in the performance of the agency in recent years.
(7) Following the report on high housing costs, he was widely lambasted for responding on Twitter with remarks about Iran.
(8) Chelsea v Bournemouth: Premier League – as it happened Read more Mourinho’s post-match gloom reflected as much, his criticisms of the officials all rather half-hearted given the fact that, when he has lambasted perceived mistakes this term, he has been slapped down with heavy fines, a stadium ban and a threat of another to come.
(9) Many local anti-Ukip protests are galvanised by a tiny, loud woman who goes by the soubriquet Bunny La Roche and who last December lambasted Farage from the audience on Question Time , her blue hair and cries of “racist scumbag” making a lasting impression.
(10) He lambasts them for undermining local democracy by flexing their legal and financial muscle against much weaker local authorities, and employing former government advisers to forge close relationships with Whitehall.
(11) Former Netanyahu aide lambasts US ambassador in heated spat Read more “These provocative acts are bound to increase the growth of settler populations, further heighten tensions and undermine any prospects for a political road ahead,” Ban told a United Nations security council meeting on the Middle East.
(12) But amid mounting opposition to the measures, the Communist party lambasted the speech as "scaremongering".
(13) It has been a year and no justice has been made.” Speaker after speaker lambasted the response to Brown’s death by authorities.
(14) When the CPS requested his extradition in 2007, Putin responded by lambasting Britain's colonial "no brains" mentality.
(15) There is a lot the advertising industry, credit card industry and search industry can do to help protect legit content.” Last month, Google UK was lambasted for not doing enough to curb online piracy in a report by David Cameron’s intellectual property adviser, Mike Weatherley.
(16) Officials, not wanting to be lambasted for taking too prominent a role in the game, seem more keen than ever to, in the common parlance, “let them play”.
(17) The former tabloid reporter, who also worked for the Sunday Express and trained at Thomson Regional Newspapers , lambasted celebrities who complain about the press, including Hugh Grant, Steve Coogan and Sienna Miller, all of whom have given evidence to the inquiry.
(18) Behind the success is a lot of drive and a lot of hard work.” Last year she was hosting the Walkleys when she used the platform to lambast managing director Mark Scott’s approach to ABC redundancies and attitude towards traditional TV and radio journalism.
(19) Raab said: "In his speech the MI5 director general lambasted the Guardian for handing terrorists a gift - a very potent word he used.
(20) It’s a really horrible feeling that this is now playing smack-bang into the far right’s hands.” Cologne attacks: mayor lambasted for telling women to keep men at arm's length Read more The anxiety has extended to the media, including the evening news programme that tweeted the question to its viewers: “How should we cover the events in Cologne?” and baulked at even touching the item itself until five days after the event.