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rant

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n. a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion [syn: harangue , ranting ] pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast , fustian , claptrap , blah ] v. talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: mouth off , jabber , spout ...

Usage examples of rant.

She ranted like an archwife, and scolded poor Mrs Astley into such a pucker that she fell into strong convulsions, and miscarried.

She wished Blitzkrieg would finish his rant so she could pay proper attention to those very accounts, but she knew from bitter experience that it might take all morning for him to run through his list of gripes.

Malys had ranted and raved, to be sure, but in the end she had stated that any move by Beryl to annex lands beyond Qualinesti would be viewed as a most serious affront to Malys and would be dealt with summarily.

Senator Daschle, whose anti-Bush rant on the Senate floor had been widely viewed as an unseemly meltdown, would soon be losing his job as majority leader.

Fish Wally looked off into the cryptstared a moment at the ranting monologuist, then fixed his gaze on Stilton and sighed.

Has even modern melodrama quite lost that immortal type of the ranting, bombastic tyrant and villain?

Fleurry stood outside, ranting in high dudgeon, but the distance muffled his words.

Lesuperis ranting and raving in his nasal whine, clad in his peacock finery as he strutted circles around the victim of his tirade, and Valleri, so cool, so poised, taking it all with nary a word as he had done from so many others who thought him unworthy of common decency, too smart to be baited into a brawl, too proud to lose his temper.

Then for years he was ranting and raving all over the teevs about some terrible disaster coming in California.

A land that had been thus ever since ringing legend had dwindled into mere history and the thundering rhetoric of mythical heroes had become the ranting and mewling of an interminable list of political leaders in whose wake lay, inevitably, a long tangled skein of unfulfilled promises and broken pacts and treaties.

Yet at other times he was undeniably odd, running about frantically as if trying to escape from some awful pursuer, ranting and raving in what seemed to be a coherent foreign language, though no one could identify it.

The very simplicity of its utterance gave it a chilling quality that no emotional ranting could have done, and Vredech started back in horror.

Sobbing reached Vredech first, then a gradual chorus of awful noises like a ghastly descant: ranting, frantic cursing, shrieking, and a terrible litany of shouted names as people began to search for children and spouses, and whoever else had been with them when they ventured into this awful, narrow chasm.

Cassraw ranting like a mad thing, and all this business over Tirfelden in the Heindral.

The ranting sermon, the trick with the rain, the call to levy the militia .