invective

How To Use invective In A Sentence

• By 19th-c. standards our political invective is embarrassingly lame. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Of All the Liars, That Have Ever Lived, Since Lying Was First Invented, [Members of the Other Party] Are the Greatest Liars”
• In orations of praise, and in invectives, the fancy is predominant, because the design is not truth, but to honour or dishonour, which is done by noble or by vile comparisons. Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
• The satire is so laden with invective and is so dense that I wish there was an annotated version of this book to read which would make it much easier to read.
• The wilful Welshman was quick to test his new manager, reacting to that substitution at The Valley with a stream of invective.
• If only our leaders could direct similar invective towards gobby, sanctimonious pop stars. Times, Sunday Times
• And it's true that tub-thumpers looking for explicit invectives against the former Mayor will want to take their ire elsewhere.
• There can be no doubt that the cold and bitter strength of Sallust; his unflinching method of building up his edifice of invective, stone by stone; his close, unidealistic, dry penetration into character; his clinical attitude, unmoved at the death-bed of a reputation; that all these qualities were directly operative on the mind and intellectual character of Ibsen, and went a long way to mould it while moulding was still possible. Henrik Ibsen
• There is no defence against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph. Essays and Tales
• Whatever else you made of him, when it came to delivering sustained barrages of political invective, you had to salute his indefatigability.
• The point was the inventive richness of the language, the splendour of the vocabulary, the unstaunchable flow of imagination and invective. . . So No More He'll Go A-Roving