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/ʃpiːl/ · noun
A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade..
I'd love to be there with a real pretty spiel / But three little words can explain how I feel
The spiel ran on; the sale was brief and brisk; / The bargains fell to bidders, one by one. / Hope flushed my cheekbones with a scarlet disk.
An Air Force recruiter (Gino Anania) visits her school and delivers a spiel about anti-terrorist successes in Iraq; she contradicts him with the plain facts of the 2001 attacks.
Watt gets his turn on the mic too, delivering an amusingly disjointed rap (following Minutemen tradition, he calls it a spiel) on "Me & You, Remembering."
A typical Last Poets song consisted of a "spiel," an early form of rap where song verses were spoken over conga drum percussions or jazz music.
Drawing on the smooth and steady rap style of disco DJs, the proto-rap spiel of the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, various other American and African American oral traditions (including, as mentioned above, radio disc jockey practice) […]
For a second our eyes met and he gave me a contemptuous smile, then he spieled again.
[…] Oedipa spotted among searchlights and staring crowds a KCUF mobile unit, with her husband Mucho inside it, spieling into a microphone.
Use spiel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Spiel means A lengthy and extravagant speech or argument usually intended to persuade..
Common synonyms include render, play, patter, line of gab.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I'd love to be there with a real pretty spiel / But three little words can explain how I feel
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