HOW TO PRONOUNCE
tirade
/ˈtaɪɹeɪd/
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What does tirade mean?
noun
- A long, angry or violent speech.
- A section of verse concerning a single theme.
verb
- To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈtaɪɹeɪd/
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Gabriel took the key, without waiting to hear the conclusion of the tirade.
“You might have spared yourself the trouble of delivering that tirade,” answered Georgiana.
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She was already in the rapids of an ethical tirade about the “sickly medical notions” and the morbid admission of weakness implied in such an apparatus.
But I will not weary you with any longer tirade.
Doubtless the reader is well satisfied that the author of this tirade is now in jail, where she can no longer defy the laws of good taste.