harangue
noun
a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
had harangued
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past perfectof harangue.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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A thoroughly unaffected, unpretending, man; so modest indeed that I was ashamed afterwards to think how p. 248I had harangued him all the Evening, instead of getting him to instruct me.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) by William Aldis Wright
When he had harangued them, the two white men sat talking together.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
Throughout the Civil War, the newspapers had harangued, badgered, and dictated; had bolstered up or destroyed men, character, and measures.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
Here for about a month a professional evangelist had harangued the curious crowds in immoderate, and oftentimes immodest language.
From On the Firing Line in Education by Adoniram Judson Ladd
He had harangued in the upper house himself; but as his delivery, for it could not be called elocution, was slow, hesitating, and confused, no one ventured to mention his speech.
From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft
