Invective

(a.) Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.

(n.) An expression which inveighs or rails against a person; a severe or violent censure or reproach; something uttered or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another; a harsh or reproachful accusation; -- followed by against, having reference to the person or thing affected; as an invective against tyranny.

尤因整理

• When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Lady Bertram listened without much interest to this sort of invective. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I now related my history briefly, but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy, and never deviating into invective or exclamation. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Her invectives against Dr. Bretton had something venomous in them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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