Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To give vent to angry disapproval; protest vehemently.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a verbal attack; utter or write vehement denunciation or rebuke; exclaim or rail against persons or things; rail: with against, formerly with at or on.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb speak against in an impassioned manner
- verb complain bitterly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yet, if this 2006 cable is indicative, Chinese officials are hardly acting combatively toward Washington in Latin America and, indeed, are all too willing to inveigh against Chávez in private in an effort to reassure U.S. diplomats.
Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: "Loco Chávez Time," Chinese Ambassador in Venezuela & "Fascist Military Elements" Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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Nor did he inveigh against the drug and alcohol culture of the West, or its tolerance for homosexuals.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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Hitchens continued that trend by using his mighty pen to inveigh against any political regime whom he perceived to trample on the innocent.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Christopher Hitchens and the Fall of a Worthy Adversary Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Yet, if this 2006 cable is indicative, Chinese officials are hardly acting combatively toward Washington in Latin America and, indeed, are all too willing to inveigh against Chávez in private in an effort to reassure U.S. diplomats.
Nikolas Kozloff: Caracas Cables: "Loco Chávez Time," Chinese Ambassador in Venezuela & "Fascist Military Elements" Nikolas Kozloff 2011
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Hitchens continued that trend by using his mighty pen to inveigh against any political regime whom he perceived to trample on the innocent.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Christopher Hitchens and the Fall of a Worthy Adversary Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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With this grand insight into the inner workings of oppression, our educational theorists inveigh against “standard English” and counsel respect for “alternative dialects.”
February 9th, 2009 m_francis 2009
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Big government, the devil that Republicans love to inveigh against, is big precisely because it is so active in so many costly ways in serving the interests of our biggest corporations.
Robert Scheer: The New Corporate World Order Robert Scheer 2011
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It would be hard for politicians to inveigh against rate increases approved by their own proxies on the board.
Reading Austen in Tokyo Joseph Sternberg 2012
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Log onto ATR's MySpace page, and your ears will be assaulted by a raw, angry sound, and lyrics that scream that "Deutschland Must Die" and inveigh against "too much government control" — in Germany.
In China, Musicians For the Modern Era Ilaria Maria Sala 2010
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Hitchens continued that trend by using his mighty pen to inveigh against any political regime whom he perceived to trample on the innocent.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Christopher Hitchens and the Fall of a Worthy Adversary Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
whichbe commented on the word inveigh
To attack with harsh criticism or reproach.
May 20, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word inveigh
better accomplished if you outweigh your opponent
May 6, 2010
biocon commented on the word inveigh
In addition, inveigh means to carry in, bring in (to use); introduce (OED).
December 6, 2012