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tub-thumping
noun as in public speaking
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These day he engages the political world with tub-thumping opinion columns in the Spanish daily El Pais.
"I didn't ask you here to listen to me tub-thumping," George began apologetically, when we were alone.
His profession is termed the cloth (this item of Slang has been already referred to), and his practice is called tub-thumping.
"He does not waste his breath in tub-thumping," said one, looking reverently at the sealed figure.
Here was no tub-thumping soothsayer, but an inspired zealot.
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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tub-thumping, such as: art of speaking, declamation, elocution, oratory, rhetoric, and speaking.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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