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词汇 tirade
释义 tirade
noun[ C ]
uk /taɪˈreɪd//tɪˈreɪd/ us /ˈtaɪ.reɪd/
a long, angry speech expressing strong disapproval: 长篇抨击性演说
She launched into an angry/furious tirade about how she had been unfairly treated.她就自己遭受的不公正对待进行了长时间愤怒的控诉。
In a furious tirade of abuse, the opposition spokesperson demanded the minister's resignation.在措词激烈的长篇指责中,反对党发言人要求这位部长辞职。
Synonym
broadside
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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admonishing
admonishingly
admonitory
barracking
bawl
carpet
earbashing
keelhaul
lambaste
lecture
pull someone up
punchbag
punching bag
put someone in their placeidiom
rap someone over the knucklesidiom
shame
spoken
tear
ticking-off
wigging

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Talking angrily

tirade | American Dictionary


tirade
noun[ C ]
us/tɑɪˈreɪd, ˈtɑɪ·reɪd/
an angry speech, often lasting a long time, that expresses strong disapproval:
My father’s tirades against politicians were famous.

Examples of tirade


tirade
His was not a book review but a mean-spirited tirade.
Page after page is dedicated to a furious tirade against those in power.
In the pages of communist organs, many bitter column inches were given over to anti-police tirades.
He easily lost his temper, constantly yelling or bellowing harsh tirades at subordinates.
Furthermore, the general tirades against dependency had more credibility after surveys during the 1980s illustrated that a greater proportion of welfare recipients were longterm clients than had previously been understood.
Wolf knew better, despite his tirades against vile poets.
Too many of the speeches of his colleagues sounded rather like weary tirades of defeated captains now wondering whether they were fighting a good battle.
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The tirade is abominable and immoral and a crime against the living world.
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The rest of his speech was a violent and insolent tirade.
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Has he ever shown us any sympathy when we have been subjected to these regular tirades or does he expect us to show him sympathy?
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The whole of his speech has been directed as a tirade against and an attack upon trade unionism.
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He also went into a tirade about the inequity, as he saw it, of making the maximum time before repayment 200 days.
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It is quite probable that he took part in some of those tirades.
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We presume that she has not launched into a tirade to make an irresponsible statement.
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What is all this tirade that is being made?
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