inveigh

Example Sentences

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To expend energy railing against this one petty, petty little man is to inveigh against the symptom, as opposed to the problem.

From Slate • May 22, 2024

The intersection between people who love crypto and angrily inveigh against “cancel culture” is large and vocal, and the Millegan affair has thrown them all for a loop.

From The Verge • Feb. 11, 2022

And Applewhite, who calls herself an “author and activist,” doesn’t just inveigh against stereotypes; she wants to nuke them, replacing terms like “seniors” and “the elderly” with “olders.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

So why would a president inveigh against it?

From Nature • Oct. 22, 2019

To himself constantly, and to others when he met any one he cared to speak to, he would inveigh bitterly against his luck.

From Luck at the Diamond Fields by Belgrave, Dalrymple J.