Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who makes or furnishes rails.
- n. One who rails, scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
Wiktionary
- n. One who rails.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
Examples
“Reagan was a de-railer in a lot of ways by Margaret Bassett on Friday, Apr 17, 2009 at 7: 27: 18 PM”
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““Silence, thou malicious railer!” said the host; “and let instant apology be made to me, and the wine which you have calumniated, or I will instantly command the supper to be postponed till midnight.””
“Me, MYSELF and I WILL be pissing in our pants with excitement, once that railer comes out!!”
“Oh, you railer at royalty and slanderer of all that is noble and good!”
“Their country admires them, their Sovereign rewards them, and PUNCH, the universal railer, takes off his hat and, says, Heaven save them!”
“But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.”
“He had marked First Corinthians, 5:11:But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one, no, not to eat... put away from among yourselves that wicked person.”
“But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one, no, not to eat.”
“But now I have written to you, not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator or covetous or a server of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner: with such a one, not so much as to eat.”
“But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or a railer or coveter of other men's things.”
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