Diatribe vs Trad - What's the difference?
diatribe | trad |
An abusive, bitter, attack, or criticism: denunciation.
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 A prolonged discourse.
A speech or writing which bitterly denounces something.
Short for traditional, referring to an older or original style, especially in the phrase trad jazz.
Short for traditional, used in lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
(climbing) .
As nouns the difference between diatribe and trad
is that diatribe is an abusive, bitter, attack, or criticism: denunciation while trad is {{l/en|traditional climbing}}.As an adjective trad is
short for traditional, referring to an older or original style, especially in the phrase trad jazz.diatribe
English
Noun
(en noun)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.”}}
- The senator was prone to diatribes which could go on for more than an hour.
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* diatribalQuotations
{{quote-book, year=1991 , author=Bill Crow , title=Jazz Anecdotescitation, 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.}} ----
