Philippics
Britishplural noun
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Demosthenes' orations against Philip of Macedon
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Cicero's orations against Antony
Example Sentences
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There were two, visual philippics: Trump refusing to shake the hand of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. -- and the speaker later shredding Trump’s remarks like they were junk mail.
From Fox News
As relations with Mark Antony broke down, Cicero moved to open condemnation, delivering no fewer than fourteen Philippics* denouncing Antony.
From Literature
The newspaper accounts weren’t just full of mean philippics that hurt people’s feelings.
From Slate
What was less welcome in Ms. Adler’s Kael piece, as in so many of her later philippics, is her easy slide into bombast and overkill.
From New York Times
Should these orators indulge themselves in Philippics against the refugees, show their false representations, their outrageous cruelties, their innumerable demerits against the nation, and then attack the First Lord of the Treasury for continuing to spend the blood and treasure of the nation for their sakes?
From Project Gutenberg
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