inveigh

Related to inveigh: adequate, indubitably, inveigh against

inveigh against (someone or something)

To berate or verbally attack someone or something. Didn't you hear the boss screaming at me yesterday? He really inveighed against me for coming into the meeting late. Uncle Ed is always inveighing against taxes, no matter what the actual topic of conversation is.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

inveigh against someone or something

to attack someone or something verbally. Why must you always inveigh against Dan whenever I mention his name? Stop inveighing against the government all the time.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • inveigh against
  • inveigh against (someone or something)
  • be all over
  • be all over (one)
  • be all over somebody
  • round on
  • be rough on (someone or something)
  • give (someone) (a bit of) curry
  • sail into someone
  • pick away at (one)
References in periodicals archive
"It is to be hoped that no Democratic citizen will place his children at this institution unless he wishes them, instead of learning the rudiments of science to be taught to revile his leaders, inveigh against republicanism and extol the corrupted government of Great Britain.
I certainly did not argue for it, but so far as I am aware I did not inveigh against it either; it was not an issue.
The statement highlighted the United Nations General Assembly's resolutions that inveigh against the Israeli settlement expansion and the building of the racist wall of separation.
For those who don't recognise the title it has been taken from Private Eye's hilarious spoof Dear Bill column, in which Margaret Thatcher's husband Denis would frequently inveigh against BBC staff.
And law-and-order pols like Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who can inveigh against "stormtroopers" but defend the cops who gun down an unarmed Amadou Diallo.
And I'd add, on this May Day, that Jews also tend to be overrepresented among the likes of those who inveigh against the folks on the covers of those magazines and the system they represent on more virtuous and less prejudiced grounds.
Wall Street continues to inveigh against "risks" in the movie business, its "volatility" and -- the newest one -- the threat to the very existence of the music biz posed by freebies on the Internet.
(As with Harry Blackmun, who before stepping down reversed his support for the death penalty, experience on the Court has led Stevens to shift from his early stance as an affirmative action skeptic to an impassioned supporter.) This is especially evident if Ginsburg's remarks are compared with those of Clarence Thomas, who used both the Adarand case and the Kansas City school desegregation suit, decided the same day, to inveigh against "paternalism" in the legacy of the civil rights movement.
"All such killing," he insisted, "will be done with an opiate." Ridley concludes his discussion of eugenics by insisting on a distinction ignored by many who indiscriminately inveigh against all forms of genetic manipulation.
Kaplan's ilk inveigh against them with false claims.
In a play in which characters constantly inveigh against greed and mendacity, Maggie may well be the greediest and most mendacious of the lot.
Back I went to the typewriter to inveigh against Walter Mondale, and yet I had that...
4 (Petra) -- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates on Wednesday inveighed against the terrorist attack that was carried out against the Romanian embassy in the Afghani capital Kabul early Tuesday that killed an employee at the embassy and injured two others.
'The leadership of our great Party would not have responded to such fellow whose stock in trade is to propagate falsehood just to score cheap publicity and to eke out a living by it but the unsuspecting Nigerians who may be deceived by his pirated inveighs.
We have inveighed in this column about the matter but all our ink and time has only gone to waste.