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invective

/in-vek-tiv/US // ɪnˈvɛk tɪv //UK // (ɪnˈvɛktɪv) //

谩骂,谩骂声,恶语伤人,辱骂

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
    • : a railing accusation; vituperation.
    • : an insulting or abusive word or expression.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : vituperative; denunciatory; censoriously abusive.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • 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.