Meaning of diatribe in English
(Definition of diatribe from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of diatribe
diatribe
His diatribes became increasingly anachronistic and fraught with difficulties in establishing a clear division between necessary and conspicuous expenditure.
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The original poem contains a fierce diatribe against women; against this background other more innocent features acquire some significance.
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His book is more of a personal diatribe than an academic study.
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For example, 154,000 people apparently wrote their thanks for his public diatribe; he did not, however, disclose how many bothered to register their objections.
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Already in 1911 he had summarized his basic criticism and by 1930 he had expanded it into an unparalleled diatribe.
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His stance is anti-cultural materialist and anti-critical theory, but this is no reactionary diatribe.
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The opening of the manuscript is proper to a musical monk, as are the diatribes against avarice and several other godly poems and tracts.
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His essay is characteristically more playful than the grim diatribe against "genre" it is usually taken to be.
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Clark describes his own book as "a long-winded diatribe on the ultimate identity of narcissism and nihilism" (475).
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Anthony ended his diatribe by threatening to blow up the house with his wife and children in it, but was restrained by others from inflicting any injuries.
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Did he agree with their diatribes against the multinationals?
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He has been moderate and helpful, although occasionally he has dived into ritualistic, partisan diatribes, which did not seem quite right coming from him.
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He has completely missed the point and his diatribe made him sound very callous.
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Despite that, we are treated to these diatribes which conclude that whether it be manpower, finance or anything else, it will all happen straight away.
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This afternoon we have had the usual diatribe of meaningless jargon.
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