[ US /fɪˈɫɪpɪk/ ]
[ UK /fɪlˈɪpɪk/ ]
NOUN
  1. a speech of violent denunciation
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How To Use philippic In A Sentence

  • I wonder if the new editor of the Daily Telegraph has any Irish blood and will tone down the paper's anti-euro, anti-EU philippics.
  • It's been a while since I got to use the term philippic, and I have to say: I enjoyed it. Rep. Weiner: Sit!
  • Watching the Hollywood mega-hit "WALL-E" with his daughter, Mr. Kernen discovers not only wonderfully rendered animation but a philippic targeting consumer capitalism. Required, A Market Tutorial
  • All the old spirit of 1776, rekindling the newspapers from Boston to Charleston, proves this; and even the monocrat papers are obliged to publish the most furious philippics against England. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.
  • Why I Still Remain in the Provinces" was an anti-urban philippic, warning that cities exposed thinkers to what he called "destructive error". Top stories from Times Online
  • In an hour-long philippic, the legislator denounced the lobbyists opposing his bill.
  • In "My Jerry Saltz Problem," a spiritedly discursive philippic in the New Criterion about the changing nature of art criticism, James Panero articulates how disgruntled print journalists and traditional art critics feel about new media such as blogs, Twitter, and Facebook. Sharon L. Butler: Jerry Saltz's Burden
  • In an hour-long philippic the legislator denounced the lobbyists opposing his payment.
  • In an hour long philippic , the legislator denounced the lobbyist opposing his bill.
  • Patrick Nielsen Hayden on A simple, mildly incredulous philippic. SF Tidbits for 4/9/10
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