harangue
ശബ്ദാഡംബര
definition
verb
the kind of guy who harangued total strangers about PCB levels in whitefish
lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner.
noun
When he finished his lengthy harangue , everyone left, and Lohia wandered over to the nearest paanwallah to ask if Hanif was out yet.
a lengthy and aggressive speech.
example
When he finished his lengthy 'harangue' , everyone left, and Lohia wandered over to the nearest paanwallah to ask if Hanif was out yet.
they were subjected to a ten-minute 'harangue' by two border guards
Sun boss Scott McNealy gave the DoJ his lengthiest 'harangue' at the company's AGM for stockholders yesterday.
In the summer of 1950 when Nathan turns away from Ira, part of that retreat was in reaction to Ira's 'harangues' about the violence of American reaction in Korea and the real possibilities of atomic warfare.
He's been 'haranguing' me about this with increasing frequency over the last month or so, pressuring me to quit using my insurance to see him and become a regular paying client instead.
I offer these comments only in the interest of historical perspective. I have no interest in starting or participating in 'harangues' of any kind.
Yes, they do bother me because they're constantly 'haranguing' me.
Judy said: ‘We are all very proud of our group and don't really like 'haranguing' people for money all the time.
Spencer Tracy as the Clarence Darrow character and Fredric March as the demagogue based on William Jennings Bryan have a field day in their speechifying and 'harangues' .
Although the organisation uses shock tactics, including picketing abortion clinics and 'haranguing' teenage girls and women seeking terminations, it has not been directly involved in any violent action.
It is easy to get sucked up into the 'harangues' of Rockwell and company when one has limited knowledge of the conditions and behaviour that made such legislation necessary.
It stretches the powers of even the most experienced muckrakers and soapbox 'haranguers' to find the least routine and boring bits of nonsense to present to us as the news.
Once, a man who was 'haranguing' me for money interrupted his tirade to answer his cellular phone.
She would be 'haranguing' me about my ancient dress sense.
They applauded, I suspect, for much the same reason so many members of the black Christian middle-class applaud the 'harangues' of Black Muslim minister Louis Farrakhan.
Close was a powerful preacher renowned for his tirades against Catholicism and this further annoyed Trollope, who had seen the harm caused by such 'harangues' during his long residence in Ireland.
He stomped the country in the weeks before polling day giving energetic speeches, described by some as 3-hour 'harangues' .
The truth is, though, that neither Churchill's historical studies nor his sectarian 'harangues' have much to do with why his name now roils two college campuses 1,700 miles apart.
Picasso responds that he is not sure what such a picture would look like, at which point his 'haranguer' takes a photo of his wife from his wallet and says, ‘‘There, you see, that is a picture of how she really is’.’
The majority of countries in the world do not conduct foreign relations through 'harangues' and impulsive actions intended to sate the irrational instincts of a minority audience.
These banquets, where a spartan meal set the stage for political 'harangues' masquerading as toasts, concentrated the diffuse energies hostile to Louis-Philippe's politics.
Ali, however, was on good terms, both with the gatekeepers and the guards, both of whom hailed and 'harangued' him in a friendly manner as he stopped briefly to speak with them.
Yes, he's a well-compensated good soldier, but that hardly seems to hinder half of this league's 'haranguers' , so give the man his props.
At the end some foreign-looking gentleman started 'haranguing' him in a language I didn't understand and Galloway looked even more paranoid than usual.
‘These are the 'haranguers' , the reminders, the people who will constantly do this stuff,’ he said.
Although Mr Straw's visit seemed successful with Iran's political leaders, subsequent 'harangues' by the country's ‘spiritual leaders’ show their old hatreds still smoulder.
Though they were surrounded by ‘walls’ of bodyguards, they could not be shielded from 'harangues' and insults hurled at them.
When I go to meetings I get 'harangued' by the public about speeding vehicles and by people asking for speed cameras to be installed.
By the end of the story the professor has abandoned his native tongue altogether, and is 'haranguing' his readers in Pagolak, insisting that if only they'd pay due attention, then ‘tak nalaman namele Pagolak kama’.
We avoid political 'harangues' - or for that matter political anything - here at Eclectic Mind, but I do try not to completely stick my head in the sand.
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