Crossword-Solution: PHILIPPIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Philippic | n. | Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon. |
| Philippic | n. | Hence: Any discourse or declamation abounding in acrimonious invective. |
We have 24 clues for the answer “PHILIPPIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Name-calling speech. | 1 answer |
| Damning verbal attack | 1 answer |
| Homily | 44 answers |
| vociferation | 44 answers |
| Oratory | 44 answers |
| admonishment | 44 answers |
| screed | 44 answers |
| reproval | 44 answers |
| preaching | 44 answers |
| reprehension | 44 answers |
| verbalization | 47 answers |
| verbalisation | 47 answers |
| monologue | 47 answers |
| Tirade | 48 answers |
| Bombast | 52 answers |
| Admonition | 54 answers |
| Diatribe | 55 answers |
| utterance | 56 answers |
| castigation | 58 answers |
| Speech | 59 answers |
| phonation | 60 answers |
| Mouthful | 65 answers |
| Rebuke | 71 answers |
| Doctrine | 72 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PHILIPPIC (5)
Ferrars looked exceedingly angry, and drawing herself up more stiffly than ever, pronounced in retort this bitter philippic, “Miss Morton is Lord Morton’s daughter.” Fanny looked very angry too, and her husband was all in a fright at his sister’s audacity.
Cicero, in his second Philippic, speaks of a criminal process (_publicum judicium_) then in force against gamblers.
Selfridge Merry, installed in the honorary arm-chairs tacitly reserved for them, paused to listen to the younger man's philippic.
The devil! suppose they are your children; I am their father, and, though I am not adored as they are, I have the right to request that my house be not made uninhabitable!” While Monsieur de l’Estorade, striding about the room, delivered himself of this philippic, the countess made a despairing sign to Monsieur de Camps, as if to ask him whether he did not see most alarming symptoms in such a scene.
The senator talked to me or made speeches to me until nearly morning." He told me that he had heard every word of the Curtis philippic many times.
Quotes with PHILIPPIC (1)
I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1956–2022).