harangue

For most Americans, it’s common sense: You don’t harangue your coworkers because of personal beliefs and behaviors, just because they’re different from yours.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2025

The police arrive, and the locals harangue them for doing too little.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2024

A second video surfaced last week in which she appears to harangue a taco vendor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023

In an April 21 court filing, McDonald's lawyers said mediation to settle Allen's $10 billion lawsuit has been unsuccessful, and accused Allen of trying to "harass and harangue McDonald's into an unmerited resolution."

From Reuters ● May 8, 2023

Bartholomew would harangue them until the bell tolled for sext, the midday prayers.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

He harangues referees and reporters and doesn’t hold back when communicating with his players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Stephen Adly Guirgis, a New York playwright who specializes in urban pressure-cooker dramas, has a gift for writing subway strap-hanger harangues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

Prigozhin somewhat toned down his harangues against the military leadership after that, but remained defiant.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

It contains one sequence from a local TV programme where a young Johnson, sporting long hair, harangues a group of politicians for ruining the environment of his native Canvey Island.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2022

But it did no good, all this fault laying, all these harangues of accusations bouncing in her head.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

"I am not opening the store unless you leave," a manager shouted, as customers harangued her, with another member of staff telling AFP only two air conditioners had been delivered.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

Earlier this month, a masked man entered the office and harangued a youngster who had an appointment, the officer added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

Was Deen really an early victim of the fictitious celebrity boogeyman now known as “cancel culture,” or was she appropriately harangued?

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025

In July 2021, after Deputy Zachary Cotton reversed several overdoses using the opioid blocker Narcan, some deputies harangued him for saving the people who had overdosed.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2024

The boys were harangued by a man in a full beard.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

For all the justified haranguing of Pentagon weapons buying, the U.S. can still move fast when it wants to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026

We meet Leonardo as a nosebleed-suffering, dreamy-eyed Palermo teen with a haranguing mom.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025

Once “surfboard guy” finished haranguing Vance, I asked him about the more than $20,000 in unpaid debt he owed to his campaign manager.

From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2024

But Ackman “can’t believe this is happening” and is posting nonstop about his attempts to intimidate the publication by haranguing its parent company.

From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2024

Melissa and others on my team became my enforcers anytime an image of one of the girls surfaced on a gossip site, making haranguing phone calls to get it taken down.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama