Definitions for harangues

harangues ha·rangue

Spelling: [huh-rang]
IPA: /həˈræŋ/

Harangues is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 442 anagrams from letters in harangues (aaeghnrsu).

Definitions for harangues

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 harangues

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 harangues

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for harangues
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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