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Definition

to try to persuade, or to criticize in an impassioned and often annoying manner; or a speech with such an intent

harangue = annoyingly try to persuade or criticize

She fears a Card Check law would permit unions to pester, harass and harangue employees who would lose the protection of a secret ballot.

harangue = annoyingly try to persuade

The class was subjected to a ten-minute harangue for not taking their homework more seriously.

harangue = impassioned speech trying to change behavior

I still think you see things too strongly; and I really cannot undertake to harangue all the rest upon a subject of this kind.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
John laughed, and watched her for a minute, as she poised a pretty little preparation of lace and flowers on her hand, and regarded it with the genuine interest which his harangue had failed to waken.
Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
Mrs. van D. and Dussel continued their harangue: "You know way too much about things you're not supposed to."
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

harangue = impassioned, annoying, critical speech

But it did no good, all this fault laying, all these harangues of accusations bouncing in her head.
Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

harangues = impassioned speeches

He also turned the tables and started lecturing the grandfatherly figure about the shortcomings of his sedentary existence, urging the eighty-year-old to sell most of his belongings, move out of the apartment, and live on the road. Franz took these harangues in stride and in fact delighted in the boy's company.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

harangues = impassioned critical speeches

And here she closed her harangue: a long one for her, and uttered with the demureness of a Quakeress.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre

harangue = impassioned speech

The Bird leapt onto a perch over them and delivered his standard harangue: "You must be sober! You must be sincere! You must work for earnest! You must obey! I have spoken."
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

harangue = impassioned and critical lecture

On a scarlet-draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd.
George Orwell -- 1984

haranguing = giving an impassioned speech complaining or trying to persuade

The boys were harangued by a man in a full beard.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five

harangued = verbally harassed by someone trying to persuade them

harangued = gave a tirade (emotionally charged speech) in an annoying manner

Scott had been haranguing him about the previous evening on and off since they'd arrived at work that morning.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Last Song

haranguing = annoying with impassioned speech

He'd smolder around the house for hours, grumbling and haranguing until he gnawed her patience down to shreds.
Victor Martinez -- Parrot in the Oven

haranguing = criticizing in an impassioned and annoying manner

Below, Riff is haranguing.
Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim -- Westside Story

haranguing = trying to persuade, or criticizing, or sharing a tirade in an impassioned and often annoying manner

During forced exercise, he wasn't strong enough to run, so he and a few others were separated and harangued through calisthenics.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

harangued = criticized in an impassioned and annoying manner

There was another inspection outside, another haranguing, and then the uneasy pause of night, the pacing of the guards, before the dawn again brought shouting and running and the thud of clubs.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

haranguing = impassioned criticizing speech

It was brutal: the incessant mechanized haranguing of intensive care.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
After haranguing the girl for hours through the night she harangued for hours of the day the silent Edward.
Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier

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