to inveigh
2
9.9
- verb
- /ɪnˈveɪ/
- Formal
:
denunciar
- As cultural critics, they inveighed against racism and national chauvinism and championed intercultural tolerance.
Examples
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While some Islamic leaders have inveighed against family planning and sterilization, others have encouraged family planning and taken a neutral stance on sterilization.
Academic text (2002) -
Now I confess—I voted against the referendum, despite my long record inveighing about gerrymandering!
Blog text (1) -
Every book I inveigh against will succeed, and every book I praise will fail.
Fiction book (2002) -
At a recent conference on modernism, for example, a prominent post-colonialist critic spent her time on stage inveighing against the policies of the World Bank.
Academic text (1999) -
Previously, the government had inveighed against, but rarely directly attacked, churches it had accused of pro-reform sympathies.
Academic text (1998) -
I see Howard Beale as a latter-day prophet... a messianic figure inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times!
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Mahler and his associates today vigorously oppose the liberalization of Germany's citizenship laws, inveighing against the "foreignization" of the country.
Academic text (2001) -
While Lippi was completing the Strozzi commission, Florentines were listening to Savonarola inveighing against the deceitful seductions of modern painters:
Academic text (2002) -
And then there are the politicians themselves, from McCain and Feingold outward, who have used legislation to tip the scales toward incumbent protection, inveighing against "attack ads" by special-interest groups that seek to hold them accountable for their voting records.
Academic text (2010) -
The journalist will inveigh against the government's new policies in her next article.
Synonyms
597
3.4
To strongly criticize someone or something in public
44
4.1
Publicly say you are strongly against something or someone
43
7.9
To say or write bad things about someone to harm them
42
7.1
To complain angrily about something
31
7.7
To say in public that something is bad or wrong
29
5.8
To attack someone strongly in speech or writing
23
8.2
To say angry, insulting things about someone or something
9
9.8
To criticize someone or something very harshly in public
1
8.0
To criticize someone or something very strongly in public
1
9.9
Angrily criticize someone or something
1
6.7
To criticize someone or something strongly in public
To criticize someone angrily using harsh words
Say angry, cruel things about someone
Antonyms
How Hostile
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word inveigh comes from Latin parts in- and vehere and is like the word vehicle, which is about 'carrying', giving an image of 'rushing in' or 'attacking'. So to inveigh against something is to attack it with strong words or fierce criticism.