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inveighing

Word definitions for inveighing in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of one who complains or censures. vb. (present participle of inveigh English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inveigh \In*veigh"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inveighed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inveighing .] [L. invehere, invectum, to carry or bring into or against, to attack with words, to inveigh; pref. in- in + vehere to carry. See Vehicle , and cf. Invective .] To declaim ...

Usage examples of inveighing.

Everywhere she checked, though, commentators were inveighing against the insidious Tosevite herb called ginger.

The male usually took sardonic pleasure in inveighing against Tosevite rudeness and lack of self-control when what he reckoned to be those things manifested themselves in his lecture hall.

Not that his constituents were prudish (having Rupert Campbell-Black in the next door constituency, they were used to the erotic junketing of MPs), but as Paul Stratton had not only used his political career to feather his nest financially, but also set himself up as a pillar of respectability and uxoriousness, constantly inveighing against pornography, homosexuality, easier divorce and the general laxity of the nation's morals, they had found it hard to stomach his hypocrisy.

A fearful old prude constantly inveighing against sex on television, he had recently become a member of the IBA board, and was currently on a tour of the Independent television companies.

An occasional monk stood near, inveighing against the evils of tournaments and enjoining the faithful to repent.