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invective
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  • As he said that, the woman started to curse in a flood of obscene invective that rolled over and around him like the hot white water splashing down from the sudden eruption of a geyser.  (source)
    invective = abusive or venomous language
  • His answer would be intelligent and the debate would be lively, lots of clever invective and good political rhetoric.†  (source)
  • When Louie and the others did as told, the Bird drew his sword, swung it around, and screamed orders and invectives.†  (source)
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  • He had casually mentioned that he thought he should call his office and tell his staff about the accident and where he was, and was instantly met with invective.†  (source)
  • Exchanges laced with invectives.†  (source)
  • Thus most invectively he pierceth through The body of the country, city, court, Yea, and of this our life: swearing that we Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what's worse, To fright the animals, and to kill them up In their assign'd and native dwelling-place.†  (source)
  • A stream of Spanish invective followed me around the track.†  (source)
  • They hissed with frustration and spewed a continuous stream of invectives, which seemed all the more foul because of how the creatures' hard, clacking jaws mangled the language.†  (source)
  • A southern dialect word, a corruption, a slur, an invective, from tizzo, he assumed, a firebrand or smoldering coal, and broadened to human dimensions in tizzone d'inferno, scoundrel, villain.†  (source)
  • What made the newsmen love the story was a group of stout middle-aged women who, by some curious definition of the word "mother," gathered every day to scream invectives at children.†  (source)
  • But without warning, a long way into the woods, he began to berate her with humiliating invective and revolting remarks about her morals and sexual predilections.†  (source)
  • He occasionally broke forth into sentences composed of invectives joined together in a long string.†  (source)
  • Night after night he had cloistered them and let them talk, intervening only now and then to limit the invective between the Hutu and the Tutsi boys.†  (source)
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