Crossword clues for ranting
ranting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rant \Rant\ (r[a^]nt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ranted; p. pr. & vb. n. Ranting.] [OD. ranten, randen, to dote, to be enraged.] To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation; as, a ranting preacher.
Look where my ranting host of the Garter comes!
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of rant English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "ranting".
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 .
Rhys started ranting about goblins, then he made a grab for Kitto, and I threw him into the wall.
How he might convey that message over the ranting of the Father Abbot, he did not know.
Master Siherton, so good a man, murdered by Avelyn, and ranting about how the Chilichunks might be the only clue in getting to this treasonous woman and the cache of gemstones.
With difficulty Marris swallowed the anger that the remarks ignited within him and focused it into a quiet but ruthless rebuttal which was many times more effective than any ranting denunciation.
Truly, if a man could manage to ignore her ranting and raving, he could get along with the infamous she-devil.