tirade

plural tirades

1. A long, angry or violent speech.

   release a tirade

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   come out with a tirade

   a lengthy tirade against one's rivals

   Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms: diatribe, admonition, condemnation, diatribe, dithyramb, harangue, impugnation, j'accuse

2. A section of verse concerning a single theme.

   Synonyms: laisse

present singular third person tirades · participle present tirading · participle past tiraded · past tiraded

1. To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.

   Long into the night had he tiraded, until finally, when Apt had refused to keep awake a moment longer, no matter what fascinating things the desert people were doing with preserving the dead […]

   2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise