harangue

  • 41harangue, tirade — An harangue is a passionate and vehement speech, one that is usually lengthy and delivered before a public gathering: The candidate indulged in an (or a) harangue that dealt more with his opponents than with the issues at hand. A tirade is a… …

    Dictionary of problem words and expressions

  • 42harangue, tirade —    Each is sometimes used when the other is intended. A tirade is always abusive and can be directed at one person or at several. A harangue need not be vituperative but may merely be prolonged and tedious. It does, however, require at least two… …

    Dictionary of troublesome word

  • 43harangue, tirade —    Each is sometimes used when the other is intended. A tirade is always abusive and can be directed at one person or at several. A harangue need not be vituperative but may merely be prolonged and tedious. It does, however, require at least two… …

    Dictionary of troublesome word

  • 44harangue — Synonyms and related words: address, after dinner speech, allocution, assignment, chalk talk, debate, declaim, declamation, demagogue, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, elocute, eulogy, exercise, exhortation, explain, exposit, exposition,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 45harangue — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. speech; tirade, scolding, diatribe; address, declamation. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. lecture, discourse, sermon; see discussion 1 , speech 3 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) I n. tirade, diatribe,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 46harangue — ha·rangue || hÉ™ ræŋ n. passionate or pompous speech; lecture, scolding v. make a passionate or pompous speech; lecture, scold …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 47harangue — n 1. declamation, stump speech, cice ronianism; oration, speech, talk, address, recitation; hard sell, Inf. spiel, appeal; bombast, rodomontade, bluster, Sl. big stink, hot air; effusion, expatiation. 2. lecture, sermon, preachment, homily,… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 48harangue — ha·rangue …

    English syllables

  • 49harangue —   Nuku ho omau, kūha u …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 50harangue — A noisy, bombastic, ranting speech. Commonwealth v Brown, 309 Pa 515, 164 A 726, 86 ALR 892 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary