Invective vs Lambaste - What's the difference?
invective | lambaste |
An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
A severe or violent censure or reproach.
Something spoken or written, intended to cast opprobrium, censure, or reproach on another.
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A harsh or reproachful accusation.
Characterized by invection or railing.
To scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.
* 2013 , Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession'' (in ''The Guardian , 19 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jan/19/lance-armstrong-legal-challenges-confession]
(dated) To give a thrashing to; to beat severely.
As verbs the difference between invective and lambaste
is that invective is while lambaste is to scold, reprimand or criticize harshly.invective
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Noun
(en noun)- Politics can raise invective to a low art.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Tom's speeches became diatribes — each more invective than the last.
Synonyms
* (characterized by invection or railing) abusive, critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic, vituperative (Webster 1913) ----lambaste
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Alternative forms
* lambast (UK)Verb
(lambast)- The sergeant lambasted the new recruits daily.
- Her first novel was well and truly lambasted by the critics.
- Indeed, part of the problem was that Armstrong was rowing back on so much previous behaviour and years of aggressive lambasting of reporters, officials and team-mates who had claimed he was doping. "I don't forgive Lance Armstrong, who lied to me in two interviews. And I suspect most of America won't, either," Kurtz wrote.
