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invectives

invectives is the plural of invective.

Meaning of invective

Noun

invective (countable and uncountable, plural invectives)

  1. An expression which inveighs or rails against a person.
  2. A severe or violent censure or reproach.
  3. 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
  4. A harsh or reproachful accusation.
    • Politics can raise invective to a low art.

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Questions about invectives

What is invectives the plural of?
Invectives is the plural of invective.

Words near invectives in the dictionary

  1. invection
  2. invections
  3. invective
  4. invectively
  5. invectiveness
  6. invectives
  7. invectivist
  8. invectivists
  9. invects
  10. inveigh
  11. inveighed

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