tirade
tirade
Definition
ti·rade (tī′rād′, tī rād′)
noun
a long, vehement speech, esp. one of denunciation; harangue
Etymology: Fr < It tirata, a volley < pp. of tirare, to draw, fire < VL *tirare
tirade
Synonyms
tirade
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- abuse: To what do I owe this tirade of abuse from you?
- hate: How you have the nerve to finish your tirade of hate with best wishes I do not understand.
- invective: Likewise a letter to the broad sheets that simply consists of a tirade of invective is unlikely to get printed.
- criticism: My sense of duty to the nation would have waned with each tirade of criticism over the years.
Converse of object
- launch: Max launches a tirade against Boyd's would be in-laws.
- deliver: Open the cover, tho, and Moore once again delivers a tirade worthy of the genre.
- begin: Then he spotted the horses and began another tirade.
- follow: D'arcy Ryan Battersea Power Station I thought the following tirade against Battersea Power Station might interest readers.
- include: Song lyrics include tirades on the media, laments on the ordinary people of the the world and other stuff to stir the soul.
- unleash: Call people in the US and unleash long, angry tirades that culminate in me screaming " SIX.
Preposition: against
- train: On Saturday from one of our car brigade there was a tirade against the train as unreliable.
- blogging: Blogging takes no time at all A lot of bloggers have had a lot to say about Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's little tirade against blogging.
Adjective modifier
- bitter: Sunday, 2nd July 2006, 09:38 LIFE STYLE EXTRA ( UK ) - Candy Spelling has launched a bitter tirade against daughter Tori.
- long: A stunning start to Byron Rogers ' book is a long tirade from Thomas ' son Gwydion.
- anti-Semitic: In fact, few national leaders made forceful condemnations of Mohamad's anti-Semitic tirade.
- angry: Bing's not what you'd call a new man, as one angry tirade at Claire shows.
- recent: Osama bin Laden himself mentioned the Iraq sanctions in a recent tirade against the United States.
- furious: If he didn't, he was likely to drop dead during his furious tirades against the Bread Tax.
Noun used with modifier
- opening: Everything is meaningless ' is the books opening tirade and the argument flows straight from these first principles.
