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VERB
  1. speak against in an impassioned manner
    he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society
  2. complain bitterly

How To Use inveigh In A Sentence

  • Which was where she fled and Matey was left to inveigh against the idea to the empty air. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • In happier, prelapsarian times he would have inveighed against their hypocrisy. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Not a word of reproach was said when Ali returned to the ring against Quarry and Bonavena, though the Messenger had inveighed against the evils of sports. Sound and Fury
  • Verres, against whom Tully so much inveighs, in winter he never was extra tectum vix extra lectum, never almost out of bed, [1419] still wenching and drinking; so did he spend his time, and so do myriads in our days. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • 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.
  • But the most profound voice in popular music today inveighing against spiritual alienation and emotional disconnectedness comes from New Jersey.
  • The scene, so highly interesting to those who witnessed it, was to him insupportable, and he had left the room in agony, bitterly inveighing against his own folly, for having suffered it to take place, and secretly denouncing future vengeance upon the usurper of his rights, for so he basely termed the artless Yamboo. Yamboo; or, the North American Slave
  • Speaker after speaker inveighed against their inability to speak out against the Tesco plan.
  • To try to persuade some of them to come back would make economic sense, but hardly accords with the prevailing ideology, which inveighs against a "kulak" or "comprador" class, be it black or white. Inside Angola
  • With this grand insight into the inner workings of oppression, our educational theorists inveigh against “standard English” and counsel respect for “alternative dialects.” February 9th, 2009
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