inveigh

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as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law; an abuse

The artificial life against which we inveighed. —Nathaniel Hawthorne.

To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives
to utter vehement censure or invective
To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; - - with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse
complain bitterly
{f} attack with words, rant, rail; protest forcefully
If you inveigh against something, you criticize it strongly. A lot of his writings inveigh against luxury and riches. inveigh against / to criticize someone or something strongly
as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse
speak against in an impassioned manner; "he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society"
inveigh against
To declaim against, to rail against

The artificial life against which we inveighed. — Nathaniel Hawthorne.

inveighed
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{v} to exclaim against, to rail
To inveigh
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past of inveigh
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present participle of inveigh
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third-person singular of inveigh
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