Crossword clues for diatribe
diatribe
- Long to eat a T-bone, making passionate speech
- Return help before the race - and get a stream of abuse!
- Raving tirade, one containing bitterness principally?
- Bitter speech from US prosecutor about island breed
- Bitter verbal attack
- Bitter criticism - I'd bear it somehow
- Admiral regularly getting family abuse
- Sharp attack
- Sharp talk
- Bitter speech
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Diatribe \Di"a*tribe\ (?; 277), n. [L. diatriba a learned discussion, Gr. ?, prop., a wearing away of time, fr. ? to rub away, spend time; dia` through + ? to rub: cf. L. terere, F. trite: cf. F. diatribe.] A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic.
The ephemeral diatribe of a faction.
--John Morley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s (in Latin form in English from 1580s), "discourse, critical dissertation," from French diatribe (15c.), from Latin diatriba "learned discussion," from Greek diatribe "employment, study," in Plato, "discourse," literally "a wearing away (of time)," from dia- "away" (see dia-) + tribein "to wear, rub," from PIE root *tere- (1) "to rub, turn, twist" (see throw (v.)). Sense of "invective" is 1804, apparently from French.
Wiktionary
n. An abusive, bitter, attack, or criticism: denunciation.
WordNet
n. thunderous verbal attack [syn: fulmination]
Wikipedia
Diatribe is a weekly column by Greek–Australian journalist, poet and lawyer Dean Kalimniou appearing in the Melbourne Greek language newspaper Neos Kosmos since 2001. The column deals generally with issues pertaining to the Greek community in Australia, and it is widely read internationally.
Diatribe was an industrial rock group from San Jose, California which was active in the 1990s. They had a sound similar to 16 Volt and Chemlab, integrating synthesizers and vocal samples with more traditional rock instruments. Their song "Therapy" was used in the film Strange Days but does not appear on the official soundtrack album.
Diatribe may refer to:
- "Diatribe" (newspaper column), a weekly newspaper column in Neos Kosmos
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Diatribe (band), an industrial rock group active 1991–97
- Diatribe (album), a 1996 release by Diatribe
- Diatribes (album), a 1996 album by Napalm Death
- Diatribes, a work by Greek philosopher Bion of Borysthenes
Diatribe is the self-titled full-length album released by Diatribe.
Usage examples of "diatribe".
The diatribes by liberals like Chait, who not only hated Bush but also ridiculed him as a dullard.
Horace, and scholars such as Fraenkel and Rudd who seek to account for the structures of the first three diatribes must explain the disjunction between shifts in apparent subject and shifts in tone.
Faulconer was incapable of speaking, but then the words flowed and soldiers fifty yards from the farmhouse listened in awe, while men bivouacked further away hurried closer to hear the diatribe.
While he had sound ideas and concepts, his writing resembled rambling diatribes more than anything else.
Marlowe had been particularly irked when, during an afternoon of hanging out in the rastafarian barbershop, an antique copy of Have Gun Will Travel was interrupted by an earnest woman with a lengthy diatribe about lesbian rights under any new administration.
Made rather a habit of it, too, it looks like," he had added critically, looking over the scrawled manuscript of the antitax diatribe.
There had been the monologue-there was no other word to describe it--on the correct preparation of "Tex-Mex chili" ("whatever that is," Arrhae heard from the Praetorate benches behind her), together with a vituperative diatribe against those heretics ("ah, religious schism.
Lunzie thought she had never seen a harsher dressing down ever committed to plas-sheet, but the grade noted below the diatribe showed that he was pleased with her.
With the alteration of one word – the proper name – this passage might have been taken straight from some political diatribe of to-day.
Their diatribes suggest that the Hebrews, often thought to be a homogeneous group, were actually a combination of roving tribes and settled cities, only some of whom were willing to adopt one Sky God over the Mother of All Baalim or Gods.
Their diatribes suggest that the Hebrews, often thought to be a homogeneous group, were actually a combination of roving tribes and settled cities, only some of whom were willing to adopt one Sky God over the Mother of All Baalim or Gods.
He wore a sorcot, underpants and braies same as everyone else, yet I stood hypnotized as one by one he discarded each piece while his diatribe against the French king continued unabated.
Now the tip of the blade dipped in curt signal toward the nervous Mearan troops, his voice cutting off Brices diatribe.
So she sat in the ladder-backed chair facing the stone hearth, her hands folded demurely in her lap, and listened wide-eyed to his diatribe against Satan's servants and black magic.
I baited my liberal adversaries, publishing a diatribe against a board of regents proposal to strengthen affirmative action programs.