Tirade
[taɪ'reɪd;tɪ-] or ['taɪred]
Definition
(n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Strain of invective.
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Definition
n. a strain of censure or reproof; a long vehement reproof.
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- She looked for an answer to this tirade. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You might have spared yourself the trouble of delivering that tirade, answered Georgiana. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Caroline chid her when she abused Lord Wellington; but she listened delighted to a subsequent tirade against the Prince Regent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And at the same moment, a grimace came over her mouth, of mocking irony at her own unspoken tirade. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Yet, as far as I understood your tirade, it was a protest against all womanly and domestic employment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Margaret smiled a little, and then sighed as she remembered afresh her old tirades against trade. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Checker: Mimi