Definitions for harangue

harangue ha·rangue

Spelling: [huh-rang]
IPA: /həˈræŋ/

Harangue is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in harangue (aaeghnru).

Definitions for harangue

noun

  1. a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
  2. a long, passionate, and vehement speech, especially one delivered before a public gathering.
  3. any long, pompous speech or writing of a tediously hortatory or didactic nature; sermonizing lecture or discourse.

verb (used with object)

  1. to address in a harangue.

verb (used without object)

  1. to deliver a harangue.

Origin of harangue

1530-40; (noun) Middle French harangue Italian ar(r)inga speech, oration, noun derivative of ar(r)ingare to speak in public, verbal derivative of aringo public square Gothic *hriggs Examples for harangue

Flanagan, standing in his stirrups, attempted to harangue the mob.

It was impossible to take offence at the mock seriousness of Bobby's harangue.

I did not expect McNeice to deliver a harangue on the whole seventeen, but that is what he did.

Watch him unleash a magnificent, expletive-ridden rant—and be grateful for the Internet, where this harangue will live forever.

I half-expected him to barnstorm out in riding boots and harangue us, Mussolini-style, underlit from a plinth.

The girl 128 was leaning over, and the man evidently was delivering a harangue.

Out in the night the yells had subsided since the Hadji's harangue, if not wholly because of it.

He used to harangue any of the young men in Homs not participating in protests, recalled Moutlak.

The jury had listened to the buzzard's harangue, with their eyes, not with their ears.

The occasion was a gala dinner during which Pinter began to harangue some unfortunate guest for his political views.

Word Value for harangue
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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