harangues
Delivers aggressive speeches
Harangues are lengthy, aggressive speeches—the kind that berate or lecture an audience at exhausting length.
A politician harangues a crowd; a boss harangues employees about productivity.
The word implies both verbal aggression and tedious duration: She launched into one of her harangues about the state of modern youth.
To harangue is to deliver such a speech.
Bitter, prolonged verbal attack
- rantAngry prolonged outburst
- tiradeExtended angry speech
- invectiveAbusive denunciation
- fulminationFierce verbal denunciation
broadside · philippic · screed · jeremiad · polemic · denunciation · vituperation · outburst
Art of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- declamationForceful, theatrical speaking
- speechifyingDelivering pompous addresses
grandstanding · pontificating · sermonizing · lecturing · preaching · exhortation · discourse · bombast
Express sharp disapproval
- reprimandFormal expression of disapproval
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- castigationSevere verbal criticism
- chastisementFormal scolding or correction
upbraiding · admonishment · berating · reproach · scolding · lecture · dressing-down · telling-off
Intensely forceful in feeling
- impassionedFilled with intense emotion
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
- passionateIntensely emotional or enthusiastic
forceful · emphatic · thunderous · fierce · heated · strident · vociferous · blistering
Manipulative populist leader
- rabble-rouserOne who stirs dissent
- agitatorOne who foments discord
- firebrandAgitator or burning stick
- partisanBiased toward one side
propagandist · polemicist · ideologue · filibuster · stump · rally · campaign · mob
diatribe
Bitter, prolonged verbal attack
fulmination · broadside · philippic · screed · jeremiad · polemic · denunciation · vituperation · outburst · tongue-lashing
rhetoric
Art of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- declamationForceful, theatrical speaking
speechifying · grandstanding · pontificating · sermonizing · lecturing · preaching · exhortation · discourse · bombast · bluster
rebuke
Express sharp disapproval
- reprimandFormal expression of disapproval
- censureFormal institutional disapproval
- castigationSevere verbal criticism
chastisement · upbraiding · admonishment · berating · reproach · scolding · lecture · dressing-down · telling-off · excoriation
vehement
Intensely forceful in feeling
- impassionedFilled with intense emotion
- fieryIntensely hot or passionate
- ferventIntensely and sincerely felt
passionate · forceful · emphatic · thunderous · fierce · heated · strident · vociferous · blistering · scathing
demagogue
Manipulative populist leader
- rabble-rouserOne who stirs dissent
- agitatorOne who foments discord
- firebrandAgitator or burning stick
partisan · propagandist · polemicist · ideologue · filibuster · stump · rally · campaign · mob · crowd
- criticismscriticizes, disparages, condemns, denounces, censures
- speechesspeech, addresses, historic speeches, lecture, soliloquy
- tiradestirades, tirade, rants, rant, diatribes
- demagogueryrabble-rousing, fearmongering, fear mongering, scapegoating, pandering
- oratorypublic speaking, speeches, oration, orations, addresses
- rhetoricrhetoric, persuasion, oratory, argumentation, debate