haranguer
Example Sentences
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Atlanta Sir: Your cartoon depicts a crowd haranguer and a fanatic, and shows nothing of the Christian sensibilities and calm self-restraint that have made him a Nobel Peace Prizewinner and an effective leader.
From Time Magazine Archive
A contemporary described him: an abnormally short man, with ponderous arms and legs, a shuffling gait, beaklike nose and chin, "curious cast of the eye," and a perpetual haranguer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Half an hour was the time allotted for each haranguer; when this was expired, the moderators were seen to look at their watches.
From Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
The prior's face quite red was grown, with horror and with anger; He flung the proffered goblet down—it made a hideous clangor; And 'gan a-preaching with a frown—he was a fierce haranguer.
From Ballads by William Makepeace Thackeray
Macaulay here speaks like a heated haranguer or Parliamentary partizan, not like an historian or a critic.
From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. by Alexander Macbain
