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What is "invective" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does invective mean in English? Meaning of invective definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "invective" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "invective": abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will

Noun

  • Meaning: abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
  • Synonyms: invective vitriol vituperation
  • Hypernyms: abuse contumely insult revilement vilification
  • Adjective: An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.A severe or violent censure or reproach.Something spoken or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another. 2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28: [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R28: [A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli ...A harsh or reproachful accusation. Politics can raise invective to a low art.

    • Synonyms:

    tirade, denunciation, epithet, diatribe, obloquy, blame, scurrility, condemnation, philippic, castigation, blasphemy, sarcasm, revilement, censure, contumely, accusation, billingsgate, jeremiad, reproach, tongue-lashing, vituperation, vilification, berating,

    Antonyms:

    praise, exculpation, compliment, flattery, exoneration, approval,

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