Crossword-Solution: INVEIGH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Inveigh | v. i. | To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “INVEIGH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| speak or write with great hostility about someone or something | 1 answer |
| Speak with great hostility (against) | 1 answer |
| Rail (against) bitterly. | 1 answer |
| Protest bitterly (against) | 1 answer |
| Protest bitterly | 1 answer |
| Protest angrily | 1 answer |
| Heap abuse against | 1 answer |
| ___ against (protest) | 1 answer |
| Rail against | 3 answers |
| Protest (against) | 6 answers |
| expostulate | 8 answers |
| Complain bitterly | 10 answers |
| Bitterly regret | 10 answers |
| BITTERLY COMPLAIN | 10 answers |
| Fulminate | 13 answers |
| remonstrate | 20 answers |
| Revile | 25 answers |
| Upbraid | 31 answers |
| Rail | 33 answers |
| bitterly | 35 answers |
| Kick ___ | 50 answers |
| Disparage | 60 answers |
| Protest | 61 answers |
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Sentences with INVEIGH (5)
When writers inveigh against respectability, in the present degraded meaning of the word, they are usually suspected of a taste for clay pipes and beer cellars; and their performances are thought to hail from the _Owl’s Nest_ of the comedy.
Still I find it hard to inveigh against kings when I recall the goodness of Alexander to Aristotle, for without Alexander we should hardly have known of Aristotle.
But now yield all that's alien to thine age,-- Up, with good grace! make room for sons: thou must." Justly, I fancy, would she reason thus, Justly inveigh and gird: since ever the old Outcrowded by the new gives way, and ever The one thing from the others is repaired.
And why does he come here anyway, flaunting his law-breaking in our faces? Right in our home town, too.” Charley’s voice took on an aggrieved tone, and he continued for some minutes to inveigh against the brazenness of Demetrios Contos.
During his lifetime he never ceased to inveigh against Archbishop Hubert Walter; after his death he repented and recanted.
Quotes with INVEIGH (3)
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different. And while we're on the subject, I'd like to say a few words about escapism. I hear the term bandied about as if it's a bad thing. As …
If you go to somebody's house for a barbecue, it is only a matter of time before a guest has six beers and begins to inveigh loudly about how the institution of marriage is a sham, how it's a violation of nature's will, how monogamy is an outmoded expectation that might have made sense for power-consolidating families in AD 600 but makes little sense now, when there's you know, high school flames you can look up on Facebook. This well-versed marriage critic will then burp lou…
Marx hated weakness in men, and considered the making of moral judgements as the last resort of the weak. To say 'That is morally wrong' is implicitly to say ' I am powerless to stop that, so I will inveigh against it'.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1961–2018).