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Diatribe vs Inveigh - What's the difference?

diatribe | inveigh |

As a noun diatribe

is an abusive, bitter, attack, or criticism: denunciation.

As a verb inveigh is

to complain loudly, to give voice to one's censure or criticism.

diatribe

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An abusive, bitter, attack, or criticism: denunciation.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=“… No rogue e’er felt the halter draw, with a good opinion of the law, and perhaps my own detestation of the law arises from my having frequently broken it. If this long diatribe bores you, just say so, and I’ll cut it short.”}}
  • A prolonged discourse.
  • A speech or writing which bitterly denounces something.
    • The senator was prone to diatribes which could go on for more than an hour.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * diatribal

    Quotations

    {{quote-book, year=1991 , author=Bill Crow , title=Jazz Anecdotes citation , isbn=9780195071337 , publisher=Oxford University Press , page=316 , passage=You know, it’s all this racial diatribe , and very strong language, screaming at the top of his lungs into the telephone.}} ----

    inveigh

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1860 , (William Cullen Bryant), letter, 14 Sep 1860:
    • I saw Mr. Cairns yesterday. He inveighed at great length at what he called Mr. Willis's neglect of his children, saying he had just discovered that they got no whortleberries and no fish, and that he was just beginning to send them those things.
  • * 1989 , (Jack Vance), Madouc :
    • Noblemen loyal to King Milo inveighed upon him, until at last he sent off dispatches to King Audry and King Aillas, alerting them to the peculiar rash of forays, raids and provocations current along the Lyonesse border.
  • * 1999 , (Will Hutton), The Guardian , 26 Sep 1999:
    • Only last week, three aggressively written pamphlets crossed my desk inveighing against the euro.
  • * 2011 , Elizabeth Drew, "What were they thinking?", New York Review of Books , 18 Aug 2011:
    • After the President, in a press conference in late June, inveighed against tax breaks for corporate jets, the industry quickly insisted that such a change would cost jobs.
  • (obsolete) To draw in or away; to entice, inveigle.
  • * c. 1680 , (Samuel Butler), Genuine Remains :
    • He is a Spirit, that inveighs away a Man from himself, undertakes great Matters for him, and after fells him for a Slave.

    Derived terms

    * inveigher * inveighing