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词汇 inveigh
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Definition of inveigh in English:

inveigh

verb ɪnˈveɪɪnˈveɪ
[no object]inveigh against
  • Speak or write about (something) with great hostility.

    猛烈抨击;痛骂;强烈抗议;激烈反对

    he liked to inveigh against all forms of academic training
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the meantime, Khrushchev had been holding a stormy and furious press conference making veiled threats and inveighing against the treacherous nature of the United States.
    • Is this corporate welfare really any different or less costly than the kind most of these people inveigh against?
    • In an age of 30-second political advertisements, truthful speech remains as meaningful to democracies as it is to inveighing against totalitarian regimes.
    • Yet Niebuhr also spent much of his life inveighing against the naivety of liberalism, as in his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society.
    • If Schwartz were at all familiar with the ‘process’ he inveighs against, he'd know better - but that's not something that's within his spectrum of acceptance.
    • Lear enters, madly reliving episodes from his past, inveighing against female sexuality and reflecting on justice and authority in a poignant mixture of reason and madness.
    • I will question environmental agencies that put birds before people, and inveigh against wind farms in the wrong places.
    • And so there was no lack of critics last week inveighing against this ‘waste’ of public money.
    • I do not mean to inveigh against the consultants more heavily than they deserve, for it is impossible not to believe that they act with a good motive.
    • Speaker after speaker inveighed against their inability to speak out against the Tesco plan.
    • They published a monthly news magazine, which served as their mouthpiece usually inveighing against something wrong with Boston's city finances, or elected officials.
    • In other words, it is not always clear whether they are inveighing against the application of a general natural scientific approach or of positivism in particular.
    • Can't we persuade the journalists busy inveighing against poor Harry to take on that cause instead?
    • On a recent visit to Ireland, I was caught off-guard by a Dublin taxi driver who inveighed against the current wave of new immigrants.
    • But the most profound voice in popular music today inveighing against spiritual alienation and emotional disconnectedness comes from New Jersey.
    • They inveighed against the immorality of British rule and denounced the local ‘whisky drinkers’ who mimicked their colonial masters and did their bidding.
    • It's Republicans who are inveighing against this kind of non-ideological solution.
    • In particular he has inveighed against the proposition that women should be encouraged by law and circumstance to rise through the ranks of business or politics.
    • A great many food writers inveigh against the inequities of school food and the amount of money spent for the last 20 years and have got absolutely nowhere.
    • Nationalists inveighed against those who worked with the British and the Dutch, were friends of the colonials and not true Indonesians or Singaporeans or Malays.
    Synonyms
    fulminate, declaim, protest, rail, rage, remonstrate, storm
    denounce, censure, condemn, decry, criticize, complain vehemently about
    disparage, denigrate, run down, revile, abuse, vilify, impugn
    informal lash, tongue-lash, kick up a fuss about, kick up a stink about, bellyache about, beef about, grouch about, sound off about

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense 'carry in, introduce'; formerly also as enveigh): from Latin invehere 'carry in', invehi 'be carried into, assail', from in- 'into' + vehere 'carry'.

Rhymes

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Definition of inveigh in US English:

inveigh

verbɪnˈveɪinˈvā
[no object]inveigh against
  • Speak or write about (something) with great hostility.

    猛烈抨击;痛骂;强烈抗议;激烈反对

    nationalists inveighed against those who worked with the British
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If Schwartz were at all familiar with the ‘process’ he inveighs against, he'd know better - but that's not something that's within his spectrum of acceptance.
    • In an age of 30-second political advertisements, truthful speech remains as meaningful to democracies as it is to inveighing against totalitarian regimes.
    • Lear enters, madly reliving episodes from his past, inveighing against female sexuality and reflecting on justice and authority in a poignant mixture of reason and madness.
    • I do not mean to inveigh against the consultants more heavily than they deserve, for it is impossible not to believe that they act with a good motive.
    • A great many food writers inveigh against the inequities of school food and the amount of money spent for the last 20 years and have got absolutely nowhere.
    • Is this corporate welfare really any different or less costly than the kind most of these people inveigh against?
    • In the meantime, Khrushchev had been holding a stormy and furious press conference making veiled threats and inveighing against the treacherous nature of the United States.
    • Yet Niebuhr also spent much of his life inveighing against the naivety of liberalism, as in his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society.
    • On a recent visit to Ireland, I was caught off-guard by a Dublin taxi driver who inveighed against the current wave of new immigrants.
    • It's Republicans who are inveighing against this kind of non-ideological solution.
    • In particular he has inveighed against the proposition that women should be encouraged by law and circumstance to rise through the ranks of business or politics.
    • In other words, it is not always clear whether they are inveighing against the application of a general natural scientific approach or of positivism in particular.
    • Speaker after speaker inveighed against their inability to speak out against the Tesco plan.
    • Can't we persuade the journalists busy inveighing against poor Harry to take on that cause instead?
    • I will question environmental agencies that put birds before people, and inveigh against wind farms in the wrong places.
    • They published a monthly news magazine, which served as their mouthpiece usually inveighing against something wrong with Boston's city finances, or elected officials.
    • But the most profound voice in popular music today inveighing against spiritual alienation and emotional disconnectedness comes from New Jersey.
    • And so there was no lack of critics last week inveighing against this ‘waste’ of public money.
    • Nationalists inveighed against those who worked with the British and the Dutch, were friends of the colonials and not true Indonesians or Singaporeans or Malays.
    • They inveighed against the immorality of British rule and denounced the local ‘whisky drinkers’ who mimicked their colonial masters and did their bidding.
    Synonyms
    fulminate, declaim, protest, rail, rage, remonstrate, storm

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense ‘carry in, introduce’; formerly also as enveigh): from Latin invehere ‘carry in’, invehi ‘be carried into, assail’, from in- ‘into’ + vehere ‘carry’.

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