Inveigh

Quick meaning: Inveigh is a verb meaning (intransitive, with against or occasionally about, formerly also with on, at, upon) To complain loudly, to give voice to one's censure or criticism.

Meaning

(intransitive, with against or occasionally about, formerly also with on, at, upon) To complain loudly, to give voice to one's censure or criticism.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle.

Example Sentences

Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.

Very largely haue I inueighed againſt this vice [gluttony] elſvvhere, vvherefore heere I vvill truſſe it vp more ſurcinct;^([sic – meaning succinct]) […]

He [Donald Trump] declared his independence from a reviled status quo by inveighing in blunt and occasionally vulgar terms about "stupid" leaders weakening America.

After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.

Word Forms

• inveighs
• inveighing
• inveighed

Synonyms for inveigh

Depending on context, synonyms include invect, rail.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rail, berate, crab, create, preach, bepommel.

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