harangue
noun
a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
haranguer
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a word derived from
harangue.
Example Sentences
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Atlanta Sir: Your cartoon depicts a crowd haranguer and a fanatic, and shows nothing of the Christian sensibilities and calm self-restraint that have made him a Nobel Peace Prizewinner and an effective leader.
From Time Magazine Archive
A contemporary described him: an abnormally short man, with ponderous arms and legs, a shuffling gait, beaklike nose and chin, "curious cast of the eye," and a perpetual haranguer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Half an hour was the time allotted for each haranguer; when this was expired, the moderators were seen to look at their watches.
From Domestic Manners of the Americans by Fanny Trollope
Sir, I see no resemblance between a pleader at the bar, or a haranguer of the populace, and me.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor
Macaulay here speaks like a heated haranguer or Parliamentary partizan, not like an historian or a critic.
From The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. by Alexander Macbain
