inveighing

• The very next morning Favorino, her father, arrived with a few friends, inveighing, supplicating, abusing everybody. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
• Give us, O Lord, the courage and the zeal of thine early apostles and teachers so that no fear of tortures and death may make us traitors to Christ and thee It was a long time that he went on in this strain, inveighing, with heat and violence, against all who withdrew their hand from the work, or abated their zeal. —  Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century
• The viscount was furious, seized by the sleeve the monk who was inveighing, and dragged him by force out of the monastery. —  A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1
• All their accounts were contradictory: one giving me to understand that Toby would be with me in a very short time; another that he did not know where he was; while a third, violently inveighing, against him, assured me that he had stolen away, and would never come back. —  Typee
• There is much inveighing against hypocrisy, a vice unsightly rather than desperately wicked. —  The Price She Paid

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