Invective is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INVECTIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an attack with words; abusive language
• insulting, abusive, or highly critical language
• abusive speech or writing
• 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.
• abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will
ADJECTIVE:
• abusive
• Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
• characterized by or using abusive language, bitter sarcasm, etc
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse

Words related to INVECTIVE

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Words that contain INVECTIVE

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How to use INVECTIVE in a sentence

• Such a departure from established usage brought down upon her a storm of invective and abuse.
• If the young ladies remonstrated with her, she met them with a perfect torrent of invective and abuse.
• Theobald has bestowed a note, is nothing more than a natural invective, uttered by an inhabitant of a barren country, against those who have more opportunities of luxury.
• It seemed as if the stream of Oriental invective being poured through the walls of the building might have withered almost anything extant.
• Cautious and deliberate in speech, he yet never failed to launch out in strong invective, and to make effective use of irony in his attacks.
• In the midst of a torrent of invective from every quarter, the military were challenged to fire.
• The comic weekly, indeed, helped to build up his reputation by the almost inexplicable bitterness of its invective.
• Sir Thomas, even under ordinary circumstances, had a stirring gift of invective.
• Lamentations and invective were all that remained to them.
• They heaped blunder upon blunder, and held him up to ridicule with all the wealth of invective characteristic of the learned controversy of the age.
• The commons now levelled against them their formidable censures, and made them the objects of daily invective and declamation.
• Franklin in a strain of bitter invective, on the ground of having violated private confidence in the disclosure of the letters.
• Here again he launched forth in bitter invective against the practice of employing the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the Indians in the war.
• By the friends of Fox it was espoused with zeal and enthusiasm, while it was attacked by his opponents with vehement indignation and energetic invective.
• General Butler once wrote him a letter pouring out on his head the invective of which he was so conspicuous a master.
• They screamed invective and insult against Jack, and threatened him with the most frightful penalties when he should fall into their hands.
• The power of vigorous invective he had in a marked degree.
• It was remarked, that he never dealt in invective against his opponents, from whence it was inferred, that he wished to treat with them.
• Amongst savage races, and in the less polished ranks of civilized life, men who disagree, or have any grudge against one another, resort to physical blows or coarse invective.
• A Jealous Man is very quick in his Applications, he knows how to find a double Edge in an Invective, and to draw a Satyr on himself out of a Panegyrick on another.
• Flood possessed staying power in sheer invective and sustained reasoning.
• It will not be found that, either at the North or at the South, there was much, though there was some, invective against slavery as inhuman and cruel.
• Esther had obediently retreated to the safety of the house, aware that her mother had a tongue and evidently willing to be spared its invective in my presence.
• He did not break out into invective or patriotic appeals.
• Hamilton, of Leeds, was uttering a fierce invective against American slavery.
• On the rare occasions when I refused to be interviewed, what appeared was not an interview, but invective.
• These letters specified the errors and abuses of the government, were exceedingly bold in denunciation and bitter in invective.
• He concludes his letter with an invective against the Dutch, who were so void of common sense, as to refuse the services of so great a man.
• In the heat of debate, he was often guilty of harsh, bitter invective.
• His sarcasm and invective upon such occasions was withering, and his vehemence daring and terrible.

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