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Tirade   /taɪrˈeɪd/   Listen
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Tirade  n.  A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language. "Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tirade" Quotes from Famous Books



... world," replied the writer, who had listened to the Marquis's tirade; with an unconvinced smile, he repeated: "Not the least in the world.... You have spoken of me as an acrobat or an athlete. I am not offended, because it is you, and because I know that you love me dearly. Let me at least have the suppleness of one. ...
— Cosmopolis, Complete • Paul Bourget

... a long drawl on the word dear, were addressed rather to the crowd, whom the widow's loud voice had attracted into the open shop, than to Barry, who stood, during this tirade, half stupefied with rage, and half frightened, at the open attack made on him with reference to his ill-treatment of Anty. However, he couldn't pull in his horns now, and he was obliged, in ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... dreadful mixture of Mother Goose and Holy Bible," exclaimed Eric, laughingly, while Mae cooled off, and Mrs. Jerrold stared amazedly, wondering how to take this tirade. She concluded at last that it would be better to let it pass as one of Mae's extravagances, so she ended the conversation by saying: "I hope, Eric, you will wait for your sister, if you see her alone, at church. It is not the thing for her to ...
— Mae Madden • Mary Murdoch Mason

... in silence to this energetic tirade; but when the little white volcano was quiescent for a moment, he shook his head. It was less an expression ...
— The White Sister • F. Marion Crawford

... absurdity—a grotesquely deformed absurdity. To represent the living God as a party to such a style of action, is to veil with a mask of cruelty and hypocrisy the face whose glory can he seen only in the face of Jesus; to put a tirade of vulgar Roman legality into the mouth of the Lord God merciful and gracious, who will by no means clear the guilty. Rather than believe such ugly folly of him whose very name is enough to make those that know him heave the breath of the hart panting for the ...
— Unspoken Sermons - Series I., II., and II. • George MacDonald


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