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Meanings of invective in inglês

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Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.

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        Abusive, reproachful, or venomous language used to express blame or censure.

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                Usage of invective in inglês
                1
                The article attacked the Grand Duke and the Court with low invective.
                Jean-Christophe, Volume I
                2
                In the latter, a wicked woman is denounced with the wildest invective.
                The Book of Delight and Other Papers
                3
                Strickland employed not the rapier of sarcasm but the bludgeon of invective.
                The Moon and Sixpence
                4
                Things only really got going when he burst into invective and profanity.
                The Guardian
                5
                He was terrible in invective, matchless at repartee, and insensible to fear.
                The Abolitionists / Together With Personal Memories Of The Strug...
                6
                Few of us enjoy a blitzkrieg of obscene invective from perfect strangers.
                The Guardian
                7
                New combinations of opposition were organized, and the newspapers teemed with invective.
                A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleo...
                8
                He mounted the tribune, and uttered a long invective on his opponents.
                Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
                9
                He accordingly turned round and poured forth a perfect flood of invective.
                Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier / Twelve Years Sporting Re...
                10
                His speech contained one passage of scathing invective addressed to Mr. Disraeli.
                The Grand Old Man / Or, the Life and Public Services of the Righ...
                11
                She abused me right royally, and her power of invective was superb.
                London's Underworld
                12
                I found the invective that unfolded before my eyes hard to believe.
                The Irish Times
                13
                He was instantly spotted and pinned down beneath a barrage of invective.
                The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
                14
                There can be no question but that Walpole's invective precipitated the collapse.
                A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
                15
                Socola listened to Barton's fierce, unreasoning invective with a sense of dread.
                The Victim: A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis
                16
                Could I permit myself such latitude of invective as he has adopted?
                The Three Clerks
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                United Kingdom
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