[ noun ] a speech of violent denunciation <noun.communication>
Tirade \Ti*rade"\, n. [F., fr. It. tirada, properly, a pulling; hence, a lengthening out, a long speech, a tirade, fr. tirare to draw; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to redn. See {Tear} to rend, and cf. {Tire} to tear.] A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Here he delivers a violent tirade against persons who profess to know anything about angels. --Quarterly Review.
Now ministers fear that she will seek to upstage his victory celebration at the party conference in October by launching another tirade from the sidelines. So Mr Major is bracing himself for a rough autumn.
On the steps of Sofia's Alexander Nevsky Cathedral one recent evening, a nationalist looses a tirade at Bulgaria's Turkish minority.
One listed pro-Iraqi demonstrations "disrupting world capitals," another was a tirade against Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates for trying to destroy the Iraqi economy this year by overproducing oil and driving down prices.
Gordon's tirade against spending money building new rapid transit ignores two important facts.
A former manager tells of Mr. Sugarman's once launching into a 45-minute tirade aboard the private jet after its crew served him sweet rolls for breakfast instead of croissants.
The reporter, an Asian-American woman, was not present during Breslin's tirade.
Instead, he volunteers a tirade.
Daffynition Battling spouses: tirade union.
Ortega ended his two-hour speech with a tirade against President Reagan, describing him as a "terrorist" and "obsessed."
Sandinista supporters shouted political slogans, disrupting his Mass, and President Daniel Ortega greeted him with a tirade against U.S. imperialism.
Against the hopes of the Europhobes Mr Major has not torn up the original draft and replaced it with a chauvinist tirade against all things European. The document has been shortened.