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a strongly felt and usually lengthy criticism of something or someone- another one-sided, political diatribe not worth listening to
diatribe = a strongly felt and usually lengthy criticism of something or someone
- But I hear there are pressing reasons for our friend Lawrence's diatribe:Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
- Mom manufactured a plethora of tears to accompany her long-suffering mother diatribe.Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- She listened to my diatribe, her expression purposefully blasé.Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
- Trish's diatribe echoed in my ears.Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- There was no lack of passion in his diatribe.Ted Dekker -- Black: The Birth of Evil
- Her arms were folded, her lips were pursed, and she seemed to be chewing her tongue, as though biting back the furious diatribe she longed to throw at Harry.J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Ciphus was delivering a diatribe down the shore.Ted Dekker -- Red: The Heroic Rescue
- I'm too far away to make out much, but snatches of her diatribe—the bits in the uppermost register—cut through.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- Mom eavesdrops on Abuela and me then lambastes us with one of her sixty-odd diatribes when she doesn't like what she hears.Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
- In one of his screeching diatribes he called life a precious gift.Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- I'm tipsy enough that my brain isn't bombarding me with a diatribe on how idiotic I am.Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility
- That severity is not diatribe.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- To me, religious scripture sounded just as wacky and zealous as the diatribe Shay had given on the nature of organized religion.Jodi Picoult -- Change of Heart
- And after my diatribe, the fans who were complaining on our forums apologized for criticizing Willie and we all made up!Willie & Korie Robertson -- The Duck Commander Family
- There he writes angry diatribes about the world around him.Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
- He paused, flushed by his diatribe, and fixing on her a look in which resentment was the ingredient she least disliked.Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
- I don't know what happened between Lamp and here, but he's relaxed now, the circular diatribes put away for the moment.Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
- T'sung wrenched himself from his diatribe and winked profoundly at Powell.Alfred Bester -- The Demolished Man
- Group called Diatribe and an album that isn't even out yet called Heart Trips.William P. Young -- The Shack
diatribe = a strongly felt and usually lengthy criticism of something or someone
diatribe = a strongly felt and usually lengthy criticism of something or someone
diatribe = a strongly felt and usually lengthy criticism of something or someone
diatribe = strongly felt criticism
diatribe = a strongly felt and usually lengthy criticism of something or someone
diatribe = a strongly felt and usually lengthy criticism of something or someone