Synonym: vitriol, vituperation. Similar words: convection, direct investment, subjective, objective, effective, detective, respective, collective. Meaning: [ɪn'vektɪv] n. abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will.
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(1) A woman had hurled racist invective at the family.
(2) He retorted the invective on her.
(3) He let out a stream of invective.
(4) A stream of invective from some sectors of the press continues to assail the government.
(5) He was also beginning to relapse into invective and his voice was rising.
(6) In this worsening climate of inter-republican invective, the collective State Presidency met in emergency session on Oct. 2.
(7) A brush dripping paint; a speech that dripped invective.
(8) In Green's invective there is the starveling author's jealousy of the prosperous actor. Sentencedict.com
(9) She laid into him with her usual invective as soon as he opened the door.
(10) They are full of antagonism as well as invective rhetoric.
(11) Crowley maintained a stream of invective and abuse against Waite.
(12) They resorted to sarcasm irony, invective and self - praise.
(13) He had expected criticism but not the invective which greeted his proposal.
(14) His command of irony and invective was said to be very classic and lethal.
(15) At such times his command of invective was said to be classic and lethal.
(16) But the invective directed at Zhu by soccer fans on major websites was even more fierce.
(17) The speaker made full use of his arsenal of invective.
(18) The gesture infuriated him and he let out a stream of invective.
(19) Boxer, a renowned liberal, defeated right-wing Republican Bruce Herschensohn in a campaign noted for its level of personal invective.
(20) Most countries would prefer to do without the smut and the anti-government invective, but none wants to risk being left out.
(21) During their youth Jane was more likely to put her weight and invective behind brother Charles than her kid sister.
(22) At the end of his tirade he seemed curiously tired, and emptied of invective.
(23) In the process, Morgan revealed that he's capable of frightening (and unfunny) invective, and left his audience wondering whether he is a garden-variety homophobe.
(24) The deputy leader of the group, which is based in Baghdad, explained its campaign using a stream of homophobic invective.
(25) It is pretended, that I am retarding the cause of emancipation, by the coarseness of my invective, and the precipitancy of my measures.
More similar words: convection, direct investment, subjective, objective, effective, detective, respective, collective, perspective, protective, effectively, irrespective, respectively, collectively, effectiveness, retrospective, irrespective of, active, deductive, actively, addictive, proactive, collectivity, productive, distinctive, hyperactive, attractive, vindictive, afflictive, destructive.