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invective
/ˌɪnˈvɛktɪv/
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What does invective mean?
noun
- An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
- A severe or violent censure or reproach.
- Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A harsh or reproachful accusation.
adjective
- Characterized by invection or railing.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɪnˈvɛktɪv/
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Let us take care, nevertheless, not to yield to an impulse of irony, which would be on our part only unjust invective.
A passage ascribed to Otis during a session of the legislature at Cambridge gives some idea of the character of his invective.
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I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.
They were wholly deaf to my arguments, or failed to perceive their force, and fell into a strain of invective that was irresistible.
The opening was a sound piece of slashing invective about the evil secrets of princes, and despair in the high places of the earth.