Sentence example with the word 'invective'

invective

abuse, bitter words, contumely, diatribe, forensic address, irony, pep talk, recital, sarcasm, speech, valedictory address

Last update: September 30, 2015


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The opposition let out a stream of invectives against the ruling party.   [noun]

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The Arsenal coach was bombarded with missiles when it pulled into the ground and the invective aimed at Campbell was disturbingly primal.   [Please select]

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By wallowing in the trough of political invective, these people show they have lost the argument.   [Please select]

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How much longer this military theologist might have continued his invective, in which he spared nobody but the scattered remnant of HILL-FOLK, as he called them, is absolutely uncertain.   [Please select]

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They complain of an atmosphere of passion and invective unworthy of an honest man, and quite out of place in the treatment of so grave a subject.   [Please select]

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Marzio looked at his apprentice and frowned, as though hesitating whether to lose his temper and launch into the invective style, or to answer Gianbattista reasonably.   [Please select]

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But let us have done with invective--we have better arguments at our command.   [Please select]

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Marzio had rolled off his string of invective in such a tone, and so rapidly, that it had been impossible to interrupt him.   [noun]

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Everything that is offered on the other side is scrutinized with the utmost severity; every suspicious circumstance is a ground for argument and invective; what cannot be denied is extenuated, or passed by without notice; concessions even are sometimes made; but this insidious candour only increases the effect of the vast mass of sophistry."   [Please select]

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But, at any rate, his work was free from invective and displayed moderation.   [Please select]

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He delighted most in the Old Testament heroes and prophets, and caught their sternness and invective.   [Please select]

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