Sample Sentences forinvective (auto-selected)
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He simply murmured, "Her use of bathroom invective leaves nothing to the imagination." (source)invective = insulting language
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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
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His answer would be intelligent and the debate would be lively, lots of clever invective and good political rhetoric.† (source)
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Black Mike and Lonnie hung on the ropes, hooting scatological invective at Big Chet, until the ref kicked their hands away.† (source)
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I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.† (source)
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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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A stream of Spanish invective followed me around the track.† (source)
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Mrs. Bennet, to whose apartment they all repaired, after a few minutes' conversation together, received them exactly as might be expected; with tears and lamentations of regret, invectives against the villainous conduct of Wickham, and complaints of her own sufferings and ill-usage; blaming everybody but the person to whose ill-judging indulgence the errors of her daughter must principally be owing.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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He came to hate them vehemently, and to assail them with every kind of invective he could think of, not because they were irrelevant but for exactly the opposite reason.† (source)
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At this intelligence, the worthy Mrs. Corney muttered a variety of invectives against old women who couldn't even die without purposely annoying their betters; and, muffling herself in a thick shawl which she hastily caught up, briefly requested Mr. Bumble to stay till she came back, lest anything particular should occur.† (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)
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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)
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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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