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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
inveigh .
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Examples
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Malachi. (2 pages) The first part inveighs against the priests and the people; the second part contains a discourse full of promise.
Archive 2009-04-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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There is prescience in this: when a character inveighs against the Suez invasion, both Iraq and Mubarak leer from the wings.
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David Broder inveighs against Harry Reid with a tone normally reserved for politicians who have had sexual relations with interns:
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So it is only his Public she inveighs against; nothing more sinister.
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Malachi. (2 pages) The first part inveighs against the priests and the people; the second part contains a discourse full of promise.
1-line descriptions of the 73 books of the Bible (extracted from Wikipedia) Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Again, I had little trouble with the way the liberal use of Moore's writing here, a large part of that is no doubt due to Gerald Butler, who inveighs a good bit of humanity and earnestness in the tortured sailor.
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But as befits a duchess (and someone who has little interest in politics), she proudly proclaims that she has voted Conservative all her life and inveighs against change.
The Duchess of Devonshire: 'When you are very old, you cry over some things, but not a lot' 2010
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Working within the conventions of mainstream melodrama, Scott and Froelick gave great attention to the novel's class and race issues, emphasizing the diversity of the characters, "especially the working-class student who inveighs against privilege and condescension, and the self-effacing Jew whose confidence returns when he hears that Jews are natural doctors because of their history of persecution."
Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007
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And he inveighs against academic didacticism, elitism, normative preconceived notions of poetry, ‘closed’ top-down poetic analysis, a predetermined literary Canon.
POETRY AND CULTURAL STUDIES: A READER, Eds. MARIA DAMON & IRA LIVINGSTON EILEEN 2009
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Their author was a huge commercial success -- but "Hamlet" satirically inveighs against buyers and sellers of land.
Sunday Reading 2007
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