Invectives is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INVECTIVES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• INVECTIVE, an attack with words; abusive language
• vehement or violent denunciation, censure, or reproach.
• a railing accusation; vituperation.
• an insulting or abusive word or expression.
ADJECTIVE:
• vituperative; denunciatory; censoriously abusive.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse

Words related to INVECTIVES

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How to use INVECTIVES in a sentence

• The people were electrified by the invectives of an Athenian orator, and moved by the exhortations of a Christian apostle.
• Both ran to extremes, Rochefort in his literary invectives, Flourens in his hairbreadth adventures.
• In the assemblies of the people the most violent invectives were directed against the obstinate old man.
• The German papers continue their invectives against France.
• I have just run over the papers of the day, and I perceive that the debates of the Convention are filled with invectives against the English.
• One other cause acted powerfully on him and on them to give this bias to the movement, and that was the bitterness and invectives of the Liberal party.
• Norton, having only the family representation and invectives to form her judgment upon, knew not that Clarissa had determined against going off with Mr.
• Tyrrel grew more violent in his invectives, and found ease in uttering them.
• His father would not denounce his mother to him, to him, who heard daily the bitterest accusations and invectives against his father from her lips.
• Lord Hertford and Lord Beauchamp are the chief persons whom he loads with his invectives.
• On the other hand, I was treated with abundance of abuse and invectives, being called all day long by all sorts of names, no matter who was present.
• His gentle and temperate disposition had not saved him from bitter invectives in his lifetime, which did not cease after his death.
• Hence the Church and her ministers were favourite topics for their invectives.
• And lo, there spurted into his face all at once a cry of pain, and two curses and twenty bad invectives, so that in his fright he raised his stick and also struck the trodden one.
• In both houses, also, the arguments and invectives employed were allied in character.
• He far exceeded his brother in his invectives and indignation.
• One of our number left to guard the sleigh, luckily had it ready, in we jumped and drove for our lives, pursued by invectives too horrible to mention.
• They withstood his invectives with tolerable composure, and the disgraceful old fellow left them in a pet, about half an hour after his arrival.
• Antipas listened, without appearing to be shocked at the strength of the invectives.
• His interpreter, in impassive tones, translated into the Roman tongue all the threats and invectives that rolled up from the depths of the gloomy prison.
• The fierce invectives of the reformers forbade all hope of temperate discussion, and their unreasoning denunciations only provoked resentment.
• After hollow overtures, Innocent fled to Lyons, and there launched invectives against Frederick and appeals to Christendom.
• One of the Spaniards fled, but the other stood trembling in his tracks, and by invectives called back his companion.
• No less vigorous are his invectives against the rich and the social evils of his time.
• Unconsciously, Paul, the scholar and coming statesman, the grave quiet youth, began to shout and to hurl invectives at those who presumed to hold them back.
• Either then let some one teach them to be modest, or else let him suffer me ever to utter my invectives against them.
• All the void has been filled up with invectives against coalition, with allusions to the loss of America, with the activity and inactivity of ministers.
• Affectation of parade, and gaudy cloathing, were admitted among many of the clergy, who incurred the severest invectives of the poets on that account.
• Upon the accusations already specified, and the invectives of Hugues le Blanc, the assemblage of prelates at Worms resolve upon the deposition of Gregory VII.
• The invectives with which the argument was accompanied produced a widely-spread irritation.

Similar words containing VECTIVE without suffix s and without prefix in

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