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Antonyms for haranguing

Grammar : Verb
Spell : huh-rang
Phonetic Transcription : həˈræŋ

Definition of haranguing

Origin :
  • mid-15c., arang, Scottish (in English from c.1600), from Middle French harangue (14c.), from Italian aringo "public square, platform," from a Germanic source ultimately from or including Proto-Germanic *ring "circular gathering" (see ring (n.1)). Perhaps it is ultimately from Gothic *hriggs (pronounced "hrings"), with the first -a- inserted to ease Romanic pronunciation of Germanic hr- (cf. hamper (n.)). But Barnhart suggests a Germanic compound, hari-hring "circular gathering," literally "army-ring."
  • verb give a long lecture
Example sentences :
  • You should have heard Gamacho haranguing his friends in the street.
  • Extract from : « Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard » by Joseph Conrad
  • While haranguing the insurgents, he was shot from his horse.
  • Extract from : « A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year » by Edwin Emerson
  • The Star Chamber, hearing that he was haranguing the mob, ordered him to be gagged.
  • Extract from : « Charles I » by Jacob Abbott
  • I saw that he was a white man, and knew by his gestures that he was haranguing the savages.
  • Extract from : « The Trapper's Son » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • You should have seen him, day after day, haranguing crowds of villagers.
  • Extract from : « In Greek Waters » by G. A. Henty
  • Even Demopithekos, the mob-monkey, may have a conscience, when he is not haranguing the people.
  • Extract from : « The Diva's Ruby » by F. Marion Crawford
  • Letitia was haranguing a cook and her husband was temporarily forgotten.
  • Extract from : « Wanted: A Cook » by Alan Dale
  • The rumour reached that part of the Green where Redgrave was then haranguing.
  • Extract from : « Demos » by George Gissing
  • There he stood, haranguing his people in a bitter undertone.
  • Extract from : « Greater Britain » by Charles Wentworth Dilke
  • After haranguing his disciples, he addressed himself to the people.
  • Extract from : « Ecce Homo! » by Paul Henry Thiry Baron d' Holbach

Synonyms for haranguing

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