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invective

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It’s easy to ridicule and dismiss a Kremlin opponent hurling invective from abroad, but much more difficult to do so when he does so from within the lion’s den.

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The local government, despite all the invective directed at its leadership, seems to be functioning normally for the moment.

As an insult, which is absolutely what it is, it satisfyingly rolls off the tongue, as all invective should.

Compliments would earn their deliverer a stream of invective, while an insult or dirty joke “would earn his respect.”

A lot of invective has been thrown their way, but that one company spends about $50 million a year on R&D.

Her piece is a colorful collection of insults, long on invective and heavy on the adjectives.

Most's explanation, full of bitter invective, suggested hostile personal feeling.

If he had lost a son, he had found, what he seems to have prized quite as much, a fertile theme for invective.

If Maria does not take care, I shall write a much sharper invective against her, for not answering my Diabolical book.

It was when one of the table-legs overturned the swill-pail that the long pent-up storm burst in a torrent of invective.

The struggle was over, and Fox vented his rage and disappointment in a speech of unmeasured invective.

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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to invective, such as: denunciation, diatribe, epithet, tirade, accusation, and berating.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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