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View synonyms for ˈtub-ˌthumping

ˈtub-ˌthumping

adjective

  1. (of a speech or speaker) noisy, violent, or ranting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. noisy, violent, or ranting public speaking
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

These day he engages the political world with tub-thumping opinion columns in the Spanish daily El Pais.

"I didn't ask you here to listen to me tub-thumping," George began apologetically, when we were alone.

His profession is termed the cloth (this item of Slang has been already referred to), and his practice is called tub-thumping.

"He does not waste his breath in tub-thumping," said one, looking reverently at the sealed figure.

Here was no tub-thumping soothsayer, but an inspired zealot.

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