Harangue

[her-rang]

noun
1. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
2. a long, passionate, and vehement speech, esp. one delivered before a public gathering.
3. any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse.

–verb (used with object)
4. to address in a harangue.

–verb (used without object)
5. to deliver a harangue.


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