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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To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support — to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective — to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run.† (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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A stream of Spanish invective followed me around the track.† (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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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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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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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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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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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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