Crossword clues for tirade
tirade
- Bitter outburst
- Demagogue's outburst
- Tweetstorm, e.g
- Long, harsh speech
- Long, angry speech
- Ear-burning rampage
- Denunciatory outburst
- Angry address
- Violent denunciation
- Intemperate outburst
- Harsh talking-to
- Demagogue's specialty
- Wordy rant
- Wild oratory
- Widely ignored Facebook post, often
- Vituperative speech
- Vitriolic volley
- Vitriolic speech
- Violent speech
- Twitterstorm, e.g
- Spate of words
- Scene causer, perhaps
- Rabble-rousing outburst
- Prolonged outburst
- Major rant
- Loud rant
- Long, loud speech
- Intense rant
- Hothead's harangue
- Heated speech
- Harsh talk
- Extended rant
- Extended diatribe
- Ear-burning speech
- Broadside of denunciation
- Blog content, at times
- Bitter, ranting outburst
- Bitter words
- Apologia's opposite
- Angry lecture
- Philippic
- Pep talk, sometimes
- Tongue-lashing
- Ranting speech
- Harangue
- Explosion of a sort
- Steam is blown off during it
- Oratorical outburst
- Vehement speech
- It might result in a meltdown
- Long rant
- Vehement venting
- Angry rant
- Tryst sites
- A violent denunciation
- Screed
- Vituperative outpouring
- Shrew's harangue
- Spleen venting
- Harsh speech
- Podium-pounding speech
- Immoderate speech
- Diatribe
- Intemperate speech
- Angry speech
- Ranting outburst
- Abusive speech
- Fishwife's outburst
- Artist in time for lecture?
- Long angry speech
- Rant coming from one stuck in traffic
- Angry words of one caught in traffic
- Protracted rant
- Angry harangue
- IT are furious about the source of DOS attack
- Invective from first person caught in traffic
- In business one gets criticism
- Angry outburst from one stuck in traffic
- Angry outburst
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See Tear to rend, and cf. Tire to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who
profess to know anything about angels.
--Quarterly
Review.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a long, vehement speech, a 'volley of words,' " 1801, from French tirade "a volley, a shot; a pull; a long speech or passage; a drawing out" (16c.), from tirer "draw out, endure, suffer," or the French noun is perhaps from or influenced by cognate Italian tirata "a volley," from past participle of tirare "to draw." The whole Romanic word group is of uncertain origin. Barnhart suggests it is a shortening of the source of Old French martirer "endure martyrdom" (see martyr).
Wiktionary
n. A long, angry or violent speech; a diatribe.
WordNet
Usage examples of "tirade".
And a gorgeous pair of eyes they were, the young police sergeant noted as Abie Singleton continued her tirade against the Houston Police Department.
His tirade faded when he saw her, half hidden by the vines, the bikini bottom in her hand.
He left Bruce and Owen, passing Dick Brodder en route who started a tirade.
After this violent tirade I left her, and as she did not call me back retired to my room.
An uncontrollable tirade ensued as the son of Wong Fei Hung forgot all decorum, forgot all shame, forgot the guards laughing, and merely shouted, rattled his chains, kicked at the pole, fell, raised himself, and continued his rant.
They paused for an instant, gathering air for another tirade, Krane looking about for a weapon.
Bruenor, his fiery red beard foamed with spittle, instead took up a tirade about Settlestone, the barbarian settlement south of Mithril Hall.
And at the same moment, a grimace came over her mouth, of mocking irony at her own unspoken tirade.
Maeve snapped her words at them and then punctuated her tirade with a stiff drink.
The tones of her voice and the expression of her face were so exactly like those of a scolding, vixenish woman that she caused many a hearty laugh by her tirades.
Anasati First Adviser interrupted before his master could launch into a tirade.
Aucoin and Mersereau had not followed the exchange at all closely, since both were concentrating on Barlennan on the other screen and Benj had uttered his tirade in Stennish.
He continued with a tirade of technical jargon until Longo held up his hand.
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.
DEAR THOMPSON: A tirade is still kept up against me here for recommending T.