Definition of invect

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Invect (v. i.) To inveigh.

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Virulent :: Virulent (a.) Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective..
Invective :: Invective (n.) An expression which inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny..
Invective :: Invective (a.) Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
Invection :: Invection (n.) An inveighing against; invective.
Invected :: Invected (a.) Having a border or outline composed of semicircles with the convexity outward; -- the opposite of engrailed.
Inveigh :: Inveigh (v. i.) To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse..
Diatribe :: Diatribe (n.) A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic..
Taunt :: Taunt (n.) Upbraiding language; bitter or sarcastic reproach; insulting invective.
Invect :: Invect (v. i.) To inveigh.
Philippic :: Philippic (n.) Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective.
Hurl :: Hurl (v. t.) To emit or utter with vehemence or impetuosity; as, to hurl charges or invective..
Tirade :: Tirade (n.) A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Satire :: Satire (a.) A composition, generally poetical, holding up vice or folly to reprobation; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke; an invective poem; as, the Satires of Juvenal..
Demonstrative :: Demonstrative (a.) Consisting of eulogy or of invective.
Invectively :: Invectively (adv.) In an invective manner.
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