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abuse, abusive harangue, abusive language, accusation, act of berating, admonition, adverse comment, animadversion, backbiting, bitter harangue, bitter words, blame, carping, castigation, censure, chiding, complaining, condemnation, countercharge, coup de bee, criticism, cutting words, denunciation, deprecation, depreciation, discommendation, disparagement, dispraise, dressing down, faultfinding, gainsaying, harangue, hostile attack, hostile criticism, hostile eloquence, hypercriticism, inculpation, indictment, insult, invective, long vehement speech, objurgation, obloquy, oration, prolonged outburst of denunciation, railing, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, revilement, reviling, sarcasm, scolding, scurrility, sermon, stinging words, strain of invective, stream of abuse, tirade, tongue-lashing, upbraiding, verbal onslaught, vilification, vituperation
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bombast, denunciation, disapprobation, harangue, obloquy, outcry, phillipic, revilement, stricture
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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diatribe — [ djatrib ] n. f. • 1734; « dissertation critique » 1558; lat. diatriba, gr. diatribê « discussion d école » ♦ Critique amère, violente, le plus souvent sur un ton injurieux. ⇒ attaque, factum, libelle, pamphlet, satire. Se lancer dans une longue … Encyclopédie Universelle
Diatribe — Di a*tribe (?; 277), n. [L. diatriba a learned discussion, Gr. ?, prop., a wearing away of time, fr. ? to rub away, spend time; dia through + ? to rub: cf. L. terere, F. trite: cf. F. diatribe.] A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Diatribe — may refer to: Diatribe (newspaper column), a weekly newspaper column Diatribe (band), an industrial rock group from the 1990s This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal l … Wikipedia
diatribe — 1640s (in Latin form in English from 1580s), discourse, critical dissertation, from Fr. diatribe (15c.), from L. diatriba learned discussion, from Gk. diatribe employment, study, in Plato, discourse, lit. a wearing away (of time), from dia away… … Etymology dictionary
diatribe — [dī′ə trīb΄] n. [Fr < L diatriba, learned discussion < Gr diatribē, a wearing away < diatribein < dia , through + tribein, to rub, akin to L terere, to rub: see THROW] a bitter, abusive criticism or denunciation … English World dictionary
Diatrĭbe — (gr.), 1) Abhandlung; 2) tadelnde, schmähende Kritik über eine Schrift … Pierer's Universal-Lexikon
Diatrībe — (griech.), gelehrte oder schulmäßige Abhandlung, insbes. eine kritische Streitschrift … Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon
Diatribe — Diatrībe (grch.), gelehrte Abhandlung, bes. literar. kritische Streitschrift … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
Diatribe — Diatribe, griech., gelehrte Erörterung, kleine Abhandlung, besonders eine gelehrt thuende bittere Streit oder Schmähschrift. Bekannt ist die D., welche Voltaire unter dem Titel des Doktors Akakia, Leibarztes des Papstes, gegen Maupertuis losließ … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
diatribe — DIATRIBE. s. fém. Dissertation. Il s emploie principalement dans le genre polémique, et désigne quelquefois Une critique amère et violente … Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française 1798
