Invective
[ɪn'vektɪv] or [ɪn'vɛktɪv]
Definition
(a.) Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
(n.) An expression which inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Abuse, contumely, reproach, censure, railing.[2]. Satire, sarcasm, lampoon, pasquinade, phillipic, diatribe, fling.
a. [1]. Abusive, reproachful, censorious, captious, railing, scolding.[2]. Satirical, sarcastic.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Obloquy, denunciation, castigation, vituperation, reprobation, abuse, railing,sarcasm, satire, diatribe, reproach
ANT:Commendation, encomium, eulogy, panegyric, laudation
Checker: Sabina
Definition
n. a severe or reproachful accusation brought against any one: an attack with words: a violent utterance of censure: sarcasm or satire.—adj. railing: abusive: satirical.—adv. Invec′tively by invective: satirically: sarcastically.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of using invectives, warns you of passionate outbursts of anger, which may estrange you from close companions. To hear others using them, enemies are closing you in to apparent wrong and deceits.
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Examples
- When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Lady Bertram listened without much interest to this sort of invective. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I now related my history briefly, but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy, and never deviating into invective or exclamation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Her invectives against Dr. Bretton had something venomous in them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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