harangue
noun
a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
is haranguing
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present progressiveof harangue (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Said woman, who seems to have taken the video herself, is haranguing employees at a grocery store who won't let her in without a mask.
From Salon ● May 18, 2020
As “The Fall of the American Empire” opens, he is haranguing his girlfriend, a bank teller, about the intellectual poverty of novelists, philosophers and especially politicians.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2019
One moment he is haranguing the revolutionary tribunal, the next he is arguing that life is a burden.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 23, 2010
Half-pay Elie is home for a suit of regimentals; no one would heed him in coloured clothes: half-pay Hulin is haranguing Gardes Francaises in the Place de Greve.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
I am sitting again in Basinghall Street and Basil Montagu is haranguing about Lord Verulam, and the way of inoculating one's mind with truth; and all this a propos of a lying bankrupt's balance-sheet.
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Sir George Otto Trevelyan
