Antonyms for soapbox
Grammar : Noun, verb |
Spell : sohp-boks |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsoʊpˌbɒks |
Definition of soapbox
- As in lecture : noun lesson, speech
- As in oration : noun speech
- As in platform : noun political stance, promises
- As in podium : noun structure from which speakers orate
- As in pulpit : noun structure from which sermon is given
- As in rostrum : noun platform
- As in address : noun speech given to formal gathering
- As in profess : verb declare, assert
- As in rant : verb yell, rave
- As in prelect : verb address
- As in declaim : verb proclaim; get on a soapbox
- As in harangue : verb give a long lecture
- The wagon he drew was a soapbox fitted with a pair of wheels from a go-cart.
- Extract from : « The Torch Bearer » by I. T. Thurston
- Then they packed excelsior into all the vacant places in the soapbox.
- Extract from : « Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets » by Various
- The soapbox will be her cell, for it was so small she could not lie down in it.
- Extract from : « Homespun Tales » by Kate Douglas Wiggin
- He went over to the soapbox table, shorn of its gorgeous cover, the photograph alone adorning it.
- Extract from : « A Little Dusky Hero » by Harriot T, Comstock
- He found a soapbox, and carried it over to the soft ring of light that streamed from the furnace door, and sat down.
- Extract from : « The Troll Garden and Selected Stories » by Willa Cather
- If a soapbox be nailed at one end the baby may be put into this for a safe ride.
- Extract from : « Home Occupations for Boys and Girls » by Bertha Johnston
- There stood the tree, wedged firmly into the soapbox support with flat irons around the base for ballast.
- Extract from : « A Son of the City » by Herman Gastrell Seely
- She saw where Cutty would drop, and now understood the cunning of the manoeuvre of placing the candle in front of the soapbox.
- Extract from : « The Drums Of Jeopardy » by Harold MacGrath
- But I would never have gone up on a soapbox to support them.
- Extract from : « Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
- The bobbin was a large one, and was placed in a soapbox of boxwood, with magnet core and iron diaphragm.
- Extract from : « Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 » by Various
Synonyms for soapbox
- accost
- acknowledge
- act as if
- address
- admit
- affirm
- allege
- allocution
- announce
- apostrophize
- asseverate
- attack
- aver
- avouch
- avow
- bellow
- bloviate
- blow hot air
- blow one's top
- bluster
- buttonhole
- carry on
- certify
- chalk talk
- chew out
- claim
- clamor
- come out
- confess
- confirm
- constate
- croon
- cross heart
- cry
- dais
- declaim
- declamation
- declare
- decry
- denounce
- depose
- desk
- discourse
- disquisition
- dissemble
- dissertation
- exhort
- fake
- feign
- fume
- get off chest
- get on a soapbox
- get on soapbox
- go on about
- harangue
- hold forth
- homily
- instruction
- inveigh
- lectern
- lecture
- maintain
- make out
- manifesto
- mouth
- objectives
- objurgate
- open up
- orate
- oration
- own
- own up
- party line
- pep talk
- perorate
- pile it on
- pitch
- plank
- platform
- podium
- policy
- predicate
- pretend
- principle
- proclaim
- program
- pulpit
- purport
- rage
- rail
- rant
- rave
- reading stand
- recite
- roar
- rostrum
- say so
- scold
- sermon
- shout
- sing
- sizzle
- soapbox
- sound off
- speak
- spiel
- spout
- stage
- state
- storm
- stump
- swear on bible
- swear up and down
- take on
- talk
- talk big
- talk to
- tenets
- vociferate
- vouch
- yell at
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