Invective

Quick meaning: Invective is a noun meaning An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.

Meaning

An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.

More Meanings

1. A severe or violent censure or reproach.
2. Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
3. A harsh or reproachful accusation.
4. Characterized by invection or railing.

Example Sentences

Politics can raise invective to a low art.

Tom's speeches became diatribes — each more invective than the last.

[A] savage passage of 14th-century invective about the text-obsessed nerdiness of the Florentine bibliophile and friend of Petrarch, Niccolò Niccoli .

And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.

Word Forms

• invectives

Synonyms for invective

Depending on context, synonyms include abusive, critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic, vituperative.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vituperation, vitriol, name-calling, contumely, abuse, invection.

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