A severe or violent censure or reproach.
Used in a Sentence
invectives
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for invectives.
Editorial note
Almost like beating a mallet on the student every time they get it wrong, while tossing invectives their way.
Examples17
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A severe or violent censure or reproach.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of invectives gathered in one view.
A harsh or reproachful accusation.
Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for invectives.
noun
A severe or violent censure or reproach.
noun
A harsh or reproachful accusation.
noun
Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
noun
An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
Example sentences
Almost like beating a mallet on the student every time they get it wrong, while tossing invectives their way.
He criticizes Kipling fiercely where criticism is called for without falling into the maddened and equally ignorant invectives of OP.
What sort of fines and punishment are making sure invectives are aligned with good behavior?
I call it cheapo mayo with just enough corn stash to benefit from government invectives on corn products.
No child left behind basically ruined the job for him, all the bad invectives and counterproductive rules made out too hard to actually educate.
Or take what is perhaps my favorite invectives: blaming Electron apps.
What I find fascinating in all this is the sheer amplitude of the invectives.
You can do better than this, as can everyone else on both sides of the aisle who others the opposition to a state of incoherent invectives.
Kindly sheath your daggers and reply without invectives.
> What sort of fines and punishment are making sure invectives are aligned with good behavior?
I remember an anecdote about a Persian scholar who said that he preferred receiving invectives in Arabic than compliments in Persian (his mother tongue).
> gossip masked as factual to farm clicks Instead of invectives could you just say what specific leak of his was inaccurate?
Quote examples
The "health official" in this post is clearly in category two, and might be in category one as well, but he is absolutely deserving of invectives.
Invectives to "write for understanding" and to "keep it simple" and the tendency to turn complex relations into nouns had already put linguistic creativity on life support.
I don't know the original reasons for his apparent perma-dead'ing (users can option to "show dead" and see these comments) but I suspect it's due to going fully Australian wih swear words and invectives when he gets a bit passionate about something..
Maybe the non-bot critical posts have more nuance or say "this new logo is boring, bring back the new one" and the bots say "this is DEI run amok, boycott Cracker Barrel!" and a bunch of other invectives I don't even want to post as an example.
Proper noun examples
Invectives aside, I was noting that tea party republicans are actually a point against the advantage of incumbency.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use invectives in a sentence?
Almost like beating a mallet on the student every time they get it wrong, while tossing invectives their way.
What does invectives mean?
A severe or violent censure or reproach.
What part of speech is invectives?
invectives is commonly used as noun.