inveigh

[ in-vey ]

verb (used without object)

1. to protest strongly or attack vehemently with words; rail (usually followed by against ):

   to inveigh against isolationism.

   Synonyms: revile, harangue

inveigh

/ ɪnˈveɪ /

verb

1. intrfoll byagainst to speak with violent or invective language; rail

Derived Forms

• inˈveigher, noun

Other Words From

• in·veigher noun
• unin·veighing adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of inveigh¹

1480–90; < Latin invehī to attack with words, equivalent to in- in- ² + vehī passive infinitive of vehere to ride, drive, sail ( wain )

Word History and Origins

Origin of inveigh¹

C15: from Latin invehī, literally: to be carried in, hence, assail physically or verbally, from in- ² + vehī to be carried, ride

Example Sentences

To expend energy railing against this one petty, petty little man is to inveigh against the symptom, as opposed to the problem.

From Slate

But the law was popular in Uganda, a landlocked nation of over 48 million people, where religious and political leaders frequently inveigh against homosexuality.

From New York Times

Why wouldn’t Biden and the Democrats not inveigh against the real dangers presented by Trump’s severe cognitive decline?

From Salon

As the Nazis kept statistics on Jewish crime and Breitbart once devoted a section to Black crime, Rod turned many installments of his blog into the Trans Crime Blotter, and yet if anyone made any suggestion that perhaps his obsessive attention to these issues of sexuality and gender—in one case so invasive that a teenage girl’s parents had to sue him for defamation and invasion of privacy—might have its origins somewhere besides his strict concern with moral rectitude, he would start to inveigh about soft totalitarianism and woke tyranny.

From Slate

In the hours before the bill passed the Senate with 17 Democratic votes, Heitkamp took to the chamber floor to inveigh against the “diatribe,” “hyperbole” and “overstatement” from opponents of the bill.

From Washington Times