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

They listened stoically to committee members — some of whom have medical degrees but none any evident expertise in scientific research — harangue them about supposed flaws in their scientific methods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 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

Against Mr. O’Hanlon’s humming harangue, a memory was rising to dispute him: the courtroom shifted imperceptibly, in it she looked down on the same heads.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee

He provided his soldiers access to the voting process, and ensured that the men were shielded from the pressures of political harangues or campaigning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

You might remember Ahmadinejad, Iran’s hard-line former president, for the anti-American harangues he delivered at the U.N. while not wearing a tie.

From Slate ● May 23, 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

These threatening harangues managed to delay matters, but the Deep South lacked the votes.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

He harangued the conservative navy into accepting a drive toward French Indochina and the Dutch oil fields.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

That was not the case in the stands as a significant part of the crowd harangued their own team, in response to a wild week at the club.

From Barron's ● Jan. 17, 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

He harangued the others in a braying voice and punctuated his statements by poking them in the chest with a finger.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

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

She made fun of my haranguing her for carrying her own luggage off trains, and I poked fun at her for habitually asking whether we were on the right train.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025

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

Schwartz, to whom she was very much married at the time, began haranguing her in front of everyone for it: "I have never been so turned off in my life," he sneered.

From Salon ● May 26, 2023

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