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Another word for invective

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Noun

  1. Harsh, often insulting language

    See also:

    praise

Adjective

  1. Of, relating to, or characterized by verbal abuse

    See also:

    attitude

    attack

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Another word for invective

Noun
  1. See also:

    insult

    blame

    accusation

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Sentence Examples

  • The coalition, and Fox in particular, were assailed in a torrent of most telling invective and caricature.

  • An assembly was held and under the invective of Cleon it was decided to kill.

  • Invective and apology he scorns alike, nor troubles himself to show, with Claudian, even a suppressed grief at the indignities put upon the old religion by the new.

  • Bitter invective is heaped upon the national enemies, and strong predilection is shown for the marvellous.

  • In 1870 he published a volume of criticism, The Poetry of the Period, which was again conceived in a spirit of satirical invective, and attacked Tennyson, Browning, Matthew Arnold and Swinburne in no half-hearted fashion.

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