On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Invective. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as vituperation or vitriol and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Invective meaning
- 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.
Synonyms of Invective
Using Invective
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: vituperation, vitriol, abuse, insult.
- In the example corpus, invective often appears in combinations such as: the invective, invective against, invective that.
Context around Invective
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 3 middle, 13 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Invective
- In this selection, "invective" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stronger, flavored, sided and ranges stand out and add context to how "invective" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include again this invective ranges from and anti semitic invective. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "invective" sits close to words such as abbe, abeyance and abp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with invective
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All the while, he fastidiously avoids polemic and invective. (9 words)
Again, this invective ranges from light jabbing to outright condemnation. (10 words)
Blighe responded to what was his ninth conviction with Trump-flavored invective. (12 words)
When P.K. Subban scored the winning goal in a playoff against the Bruins in 2014, Boston fans had a right to be upset with him, but they had no right to spew the hate-filled racial invective that filled the twittersphere. (42 words)
The requirement comes as governments around the world are trying to hold social media companies more accountable for the content that circulates on their platforms, whether it's fake news, child porn, racist invective or terrorism-related content. (38 words)
The comedian and talk show host said he did not think Stone posed a “direct physical threat,” although Credico did say at the trial that he feared that Stone’s outlandish invective could prompt others to violence. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
Even Republican candidates criticizing Trump’s actions used stronger invective about the government’s actions than Trump’s.
He said he thought the invective was the product of frustration, although no one was entitled to threaten anyone in this way.
Or when, against the Yankees, Manoah accidentally beaned one of their star hitters, raising the ire of Yankees ace Gerrit Cole, who launched some invective from a safe distance near the dugout.
Again, this invective ranges from light jabbing to outright condemnation.
Blighe responded to what was his ninth conviction with Trump-flavored invective.
Especially, perhaps, Latinos, since invective against Hispanic immigration was so central to Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Only 19 during that infamous shootout loss to Italy at Wembley, Saka’s confidence could have been shattered by the invective he and other Black players received online.
I agree that society would be better off if there was some mechanism for controlling the one-sided invective that has taken over some outlets.
In libelous invective, the accused Ji, the defector-turned-politician, of being a “rapscallion and a criminal” and a “pervert”– common criticisms issued by North Korea against high-profile escapees.
Many view the sessions as a kind of original sin from which all of his missteps flow, once he gets through his prepared script and turns to his preferred style of extemporaneous bluster and invective.
The comedian and talk show host said he did not think Stone posed a “direct physical threat,” although Credico did say at the trial that he feared that Stone’s outlandish invective could prompt others to violence.
The invective that Trump and his surrogates have unleashed against movements of social justice offer blindingly clear insight into the strategy of winning by dividing.
The requirement comes as governments around the world are trying to hold social media companies more accountable for the content that circulates on their platforms, whether it's fake news, child porn, racist invective or terrorism-related content.
We often focus on the bluster and bullying of despots, but they don't rise to power through sheer invective.
All the while, he fastidiously avoids polemic and invective.
But until that day arrives, their complaints about the doom of Israeli democracy should be ignored as nothing but cheap partisan invective.
It would be fair to say he has never tired of the joys of invective.
Muslim expressions of hatred for Israel and Jews are now indistinguishable from traditional European anti-Semitic invective.
When P.K. Subban scored the winning goal in a playoff against the Bruins in 2014, Boston fans had a right to be upset with him, but they had no right to spew the hate-filled racial invective that filled the twittersphere.
While there were some intense flashes — Buttigieg tangling briefly with Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, for instance — Trump-like invective was not part of the discussion.
Common combinations with invective
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the invective 3×
- invective against 3×
- invective that 3×
- and invective 3×
- invective was 2×
- of invective 2×
- an invective 2×