Harangue

Word HARANGUE
Character 8
Hyphenation ha rangue
Pronunciations /həˈɹeɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Harangue"

What do we mean by harangue?

A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering. noun

A speech or piece of writing characterized by strong feeling or expression; a tirade. noun

To deliver a harangue to. intransitive verb

To deliver a harangue. intransitive verb

A set oration; a public address; a formal, vehement, or passionate address; also, any formal or pompous speech; a declamation; a tirade. noun

Synonyms Address, Oration, etc. See speech. noun

To address in a harangue; make a speech to: as, the general harangued the troops.

To make a formal address or speech; deliver a harangue; declaim.

A speech addressed to a large public assembly; a popular oration; a loud address to a multitude; in a bad sense, a noisy or pompous speech; declamation; ranting. noun

To address by an harangue. transitive verb

To make an harangue; to declaim. intransitive verb

An impassioned, disputatious public speech. noun

A tirade or rant, whether spoken or written. noun

To give a forceful and lengthy lecture or criticism to someone. verb

A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion noun

Deliver a harangue to; address forcefully verb

An impassioned, disputatious public speech.

A tirade, harsh scolding or rant, whether spoken or written.

An oration, lecture, tirade Urban Dictionary

1. A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering. 2. A speech or piece of writing characterized by strong feeling or expression; a tirade. 3.a very long speech to harangue(vb) to address (a person or crowd) in an angry, vehement, or forcefully persuasive way n a loud, forceful, or angry speech Urban Dictionary

To be thrown like a boomerang Urban Dictionary

Harangue-atang A person who sends long, opinionated ranting texts about any and everything to their friends who in turn often delete without reading. Urban Dictionary

A public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech type of: orator, public speaker, rhetorician, speechifier, speechmaker a person who delivers a speech or oration Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Harangue

The word "harangue" in example sentences

This was, perhaps, the first time an harangue from the baron had been thought too short; but the surprise of young Lynmere; at the view of his destined bride, made him wish he would speak on, merely to annul any necessity for speaking himself. ❋ Unknown (1796)

Therefore, to make you happier, I will expand the sphere of my so-called "slippery" use of the term "harangue" -- which you somehow connote only with Nick and his "bombastic ranting" as you say -- to inlude not just the initial Anonymous comment, but Nick, yourself, and anyone else who jumps to malicious, bucolic, or any other conclusions about another individual, based on a pittance of data. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Every word of Nicias went home, galling him in his sorest point -- his outrageous vanity; and hardly had the elder statesman concluded his speech, when he sprang to his feet, and burst without preface into a wild harangue, which is a remarkable piece of self-revelation, disclosing with perfect candour the inner motives of the man on whom, more than on any other, the future of Athens depended. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Enthusiastic women never even suspect the difference that there is between the excitement of a popular harangue, which is nothing but a mere passionate outburst, and the unfolding of a didactic process, the aim of which is to prove something and to convince its hearers. ❋ Henri Fr��d��ric Amiel (1885)

In a majority opinion that could be charitably described as a harangue, Justice Earl Warren cited multiple irrelevant cases in which criminal suspects were forcibly deprived of their rights, and then conceded that Miranda was not alleged to have received any such treatment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

CNET blogger Don Reisinger began an 800-word harangue with the words "Has Brian Caulfield of Forbes totally lost it?" ❋ Unknown (2008)

I see a difference between using the punchline without attribution (the ancient rule for commencement speakers has been to "make them suffer") and using the whole opening, including its rather unusual word choices ( "harangue," "slavish in its obedience to ancient custom," "beg for mercy"). ❋ Unknown (2006)

(Later identified by wire services as Rives Miller Grogan of Los Angeles, the man was arrested and charged under a law that makes it a crime to "harangue" inside the Supreme Court.) ❋ Unknown (2007)

This is not exactly the kind of harangue the current administion and the boys wanted to hear. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There's no emotion or umbrage here or even shit-picking attached to telling you that when I read "harangue" I assume "bombastic ranting," which is not my connotation, but a standard and prevailing definition of the word "harangue." ❋ Unknown (2005)

Vera, don't be surprised if your imprecise slippery! use of the verb "harangue" to refer to a short one-line gibe was naturally taken as referring to Nick's bombastic ranting. ❋ Unknown (2005)

To do otherwise would be to tell someone not that they CANNOT use "harangue" for a quip, but that they MUST not. ❋ Unknown (2005)

See, it also reads funny when you refer to a one-liner as a "harangue" by virtue of aggrieved hyperbole and exaggeration. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I did not tell you not to use "harangue" for whatever you like. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This kind of harangue from the king to his Parliament seems not to have been considered at the time, at all extraordinary; though, if such a message were to be sent, at the present day, to a body of legislators, whether by a king or a president, it would certainly produce a sensation. ❋ Jacob Abbott (1841)

But the word "harangue" is insufficient to reproduce the hatred, the desires of vengeance expressed by the haughty gesture of the hand, the brevity of the speech, and the look of sullen and cool-blooded energy on the countenance of the speaker. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

I'm no big fan of Blondoleezza, but I don't see you snarking at any male politicians who "harangue" their wives. ❋ News Of The Restless (2010)

"I don't know if 'harangue' is the word I'd use," added Mark Waid while glaring at Mosher, ❋ Unknown (2009)

❋ Larstait (2003)

harangues from the [headmaster] on [good] [behaviour]. ❋ Sara.Bee (2010)

She harangued me [across] [the field]. ❋ Harangued For Real (2010)

Harangue-tang Just [delete It] man, she's a damn [harangue-atang]. Every text is a [mile long] and about nothing at all or some stupid bird I've never even heard of... ❋ NurseAngela (2017)

The insides of [Metro] stations, which aren’t considered public forums, are off-limits not only to political campaigners, leafleters and [soapbox] haranguers but also to artistic performers, although station managers sometimes [look the other way]. ❋ Galoop (2021)

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