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  • verb Present participle of inveigh.

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Examples

  • At the height of the financial panic of 1907, Teddy Roosevelt, who had done much to bring the panic about by inveighing against big business, at least had the good sense to stick to his bear hunt and let J.P. Morgan sort things out.

    Is Obama Smart? Bret Stephens 2011

  • Once seated, we heard our neighbor at the next table inveighing mercilessly against "Cross Currents," pronouncing it too California for his New York taste; not enough there there, if I understood him right.

    Peter Clothier: One Saturday: Art/L.A. Peter Clothier 2011

  • And just around the corner lurked Ronald Reagan, voodoo economics, lots more casinos in Atlantic City, a far more devastating recession, collective national delusion and thirty years of the kind of darkening of the American consciousness Springsteen was inveighing against on his record.

    Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010

  • And just around the corner lurked Ronald Reagan, voodoo economics, lots more casinos in Atlantic City, a far more devastating recession, collective national delusion and thirty years of the kind of darkening of the American consciousness Springsteen was inveighing against on his record.

    Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010

  • And just around the corner lurked Ronald Reagan, voodoo economics, lots more casinos in Atlantic City, a far more devastating recession, collective national delusion and thirty years of the kind of darkening of the American consciousness Springsteen was inveighing against on his record.

    Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010

  • In a speech earlier this year, David Cameron made a stab at an answer, inveighing against "a passively tolerant society that says to its citizens, as long as you obey the law we will just leave you alone."

    A Toast to Will and Kate Bret Stephens 2011

  • Yeah, as a Yankees fan, I'd say this project has as much credibility as Tiger Woods inveighing against marital infidelity.

    Damon and Affleck’s First Film For Warner Bros. Could be About NY Yankees Sex Scandal | /Film 2010

  • Mr. Putin was inveighing against what he called "a cult of violence" in the conduct of foreign policy, by which he presumably meant Western interventions in Iraq and Libya as well as the recent effort at the U.N. to condemn Bashar Assad regime's violent repression in Syria, which Russia and China vetoed last weekend.

    Putin 4.0 2012

  • Of course, inveighing against the Senate provides fodder for Mr. Yglesias to blog about but the fact is that the shrimps will learn to whistle before the Senate is abolished.

    Matthew Yglesias » Senate “What Ifs” 2010

  • And just around the corner lurked Ronald Reagan, voodoo economics, lots more casinos in Atlantic City, a far more devastating recession, collective national delusion and thirty years of the kind of darkening of the American consciousness Springsteen was inveighing against on his record.

    Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010

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  • Definition: to attach with words.

    September 4, 2009