invective 的 2 个定义
- vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
- a railing accusation; vituperation.
- an insulting or abusive word or expression.
- vituperative; denunciatory; censoriously abusive.
invective 近义词
verbal abuse
更多invective例句
- 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.