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Diatribe
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What's The Definition Of Diatribe?
[n] thunderous verbal attack
Synonyms | Synonyms for Diatribe: fulmination Related Terms | Find terms related to Diatribe: abuse | address | after-dinner speech | allocution | assailing | assault | attack | berating | bitter words | blackening | chalk talk | contumely | debate | declamation | eulogy | execration | exhortation | filibuster | forensic | forensic address | formal speech | funeral oration | harangue | hard words | hortatory address | inaugural | inaugural address | invective | jawing | jeremiad | onslaught | oration | pep talk | peroration | philippic | pitch | prepared speech | prepared text | public speech | rating | reading | recital | recitation | revilement | sales talk | salutatory | salutatory address | say | screed | set speech | speech | speechification | speeching | talk | talkathon | tirade | tongue-lashing | valediction | valedictory | valedictory address | vilification | vituperation See Also | denouncement | denunciation Diatribe In Webster's Dictionary \Di"a*tribe\ (?; 277), n. [L. diatriba a learned
discussion, Gr. ?, prop., a wearing away of time, fr. ? to
rub away, spend time; dia` through + ? to rub: cf. L. terere,
F. trite: cf. F. diatribe.]
A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an
acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or
railing language; a philippic.
The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. --John Morley.
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