invectives
invectives is the plural of invective.
Meaning of invective
Noun
invective (countable and uncountable, plural invectives)
- An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
- A severe or violent censure or reproach.
- Something spoken or written, intended to cast shame, disgrace, censure, or reproach on another.
- And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.1963, C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd Revised edition, page 24
- A harsh or reproachful accusation.
- Politics can raise invective to a low art.
Questions about invectives
- What is invectives the plural of?
- Invectives is the plural of invective.
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