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
  • 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)
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"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.
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.
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.
She doesn't hesitate to inveigh against obvious targets: the army, the self-serving politicians who provide democratic window-dressing, cold-hearted U.N.
Back I went to the typewriter to inveigh against Walter Mondale, and yet I had that...
The Klan allied itself with fundamentalism (one critic called it the secular arm of the Baptist Church South) to inveigh against Catholics, Communists, Jews, foreigners ("aliens"), unionists, bootleggers, loose women, and Indians, as well as blacks.
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.
Kaplan's ilk inveigh against them with false claims.
(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.