Filibustering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FILIBUSTERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• FILIBUSTER, to obstructs legislation by making long speeches
NOUN:
• an action such as prolonged speaking which obstructs progress in a legislative assembly in a way that does not technically contravene the required procedures.
• a person engaging in unauthorized warfare against a foreign state.
• obstruct (proposed legislation) with a filibuster.
• act in an obstructive manner in a legislative assembly, especially by speaking at inordinate length
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an irregular military adventurer; an American engaged in fomenting insurrections in Latin America in the mid-19th century

Words related to FILIBUSTERING

filibuster15

Words that contain FILIBUSTERING

filibusterings20

How to use FILIBUSTERING in a sentence

• No one has forgotten those enterprises, favored underhand, then disavowed after failure, those filibustering expeditions in Central America and in the islands of Cuba.
• The Causes of the Various Separatist and Filibustering Movements.
• One day, late in January, 1898, this vessel, lying off the end of Long Island, took on one of the largest cargoes ever started on a filibustering expedition to Cuba.
• Weyler complains bitterly about the filibustering expeditions.
• The Cubans have of late acquired so much war material through various successful filibustering expeditions that they now have more arms than soldiers for the insurgent army.
• In reference to filibustering, it may be of interest to you to know that the work of playing policeman for Spain has already cost us nearly two million dollars.
• He became convinced that a filibustering expedition was indeed being sent out.
• Briefly, she was a schooner engaged in a filibustering expedition, and was overhauled and captured by the Spaniards.
• Cuban filibustering has, however, received a severe blow from England.
• LaFollette of Wisconsin, acting under a loose rule of the senate which permitted filibustering and unlimited debate.
• The Secretary of the Treasury has also made a report on filibustering, which is much more interesting.
• He says that during two years and a half only six American vessels are said to have successfully landed filibustering expeditions from the United States in Cuba.
• He says that eight revenue-cutters, with 317 men, have cruised 75,768 miles, patrolling the coast to prevent filibustering.
• It is known that a number of filibustering expeditions have landed, and the Cubans feel very much elated.
• De Pouancay assembled the men at Cap Francois, and embarking on the frigates and on some filibustering ships in the road, sailed for St.
• At the same time Buchanan strongly deprecated all filibustering expeditions.
• Hyacinth de Magellan, a descendant of the great discoverer, advanced Benyowsky money for the Madagascar filibustering expedition.
• Ferdinand, thrown upon Paris, led a filibustering life whose chances might bring him to the scaffold, to fortune, the bar, the army, commerce, or domestic life.
• Tony, it appeared, was the master of a small power-schooner which had been fitting out in San Francisco for a filibustering trip to the Mexican coast.
• Rumors of conspiracies, filibustering expeditions, clandestine introductions of arms, and attempts at insurrection were the order of the day.
• Her secret service men were busy and astute, preventing filibustering plots and mail robberies.
• They were discarded government weapons, brought out some time ago by Law to arm some mysterious filibustering expedition that had fallen through.
• Other emergencies have arisen since, and modern ingenuity supplies means for the organization of hostilities without open resort to armed vessels or to filibustering parties.
• Their luggage consisted of supplies and ammunition intended for the insurgents, and thus, against his will, the captain was forced to undertake a filibustering expedition.
• If the cases of piracy and filibustering against them are found to be true, the ships will become the property of the Government, and the owners will lose them altogether.

Similar words containing FILIBUSTER without suffix ing

filibuster15 filibusters16 filibustered18 filibusterer17 filibusterers18 filibusterism20 filibusterous18 antifilibuster19 filibusterings20 filibusterisms21 antifilibusters20

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