How to Use invective in a Sentence

invective

1 of 2 noun
Definition of invectivenext
Synonyms for invectivenext
  • Though not to the folks who’ve had to endure the invective.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
  • And there is no doubt that the level of invective on the left runs pretty hot.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The threats are like a bad faucet, a ceaseless stream of invective and hatred.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2019
  • If that's you, head to the comments now and unleash that invective!
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The invective may tell us something about the origins of Covid.
    — Perry Link, WSJ, 13 June 2021
  • For a third straight day, profane invective rained from the crowd onto the Astros.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2021
  • By the end of today, no invective will have been spared in the decrying of Trump’s insult.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 29 June 2017
  • Not exactly the kind of invective that would bring Newt Gingrich to his knees.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Brown usually breaks the huddle before the first snap with a deluge of invective aimed at the other side of the ball.
    — Brian Hamilton, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2016
  • This is 2019, and one of the villains is a pale teen boy who posts offensive invective on Twitter.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2019
  • In the videos, the women, with three children in tow, can be heard unleashing a steady stream of invective against Muslims.
    — Mallory Simon, CNN, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Firing a water bottle to the back wall of a suite, a la Cam Neely, may be good drama, but not so firing invectives back at the fans.
    — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 27 May 2023
  • Will some of those emails be filled with hateful invective, like several were last fall?
    — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Mar. 2021
  • As Ackman widened the scope of his invective from academia to the media in the past week, lampooning and more criticism followed.
    — Annie Massa, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
  • The final days of the race have especially inflamed the invective.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Someone who was proud of his heritage but smart enough and self-disciplined enough not to fight back when the racists, in the stands and on the field, started hurling invectives his way.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023
  • But the torrent of invective against Trump was relentless.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2020
  • What stuck with me most, however, were the scenes where Brown looks in the mirror and delivers a bitter stream of brutal invective.
    — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
  • For Caldwell, who is 62, this sort of invective is simply part of American life.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The daily stream of invective from Trump was dizzying to keep track of, and so voluminous as to almost insure that no one could, in fact, do so.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Others face streams of invective in their inboxes and on their Twitter feeds.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
  • But acting white didn’t stop people from hurling racist invective at her.
    — Esmeralda Bermudez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Each side ended up hurling bitter invective against each other, much of which was true.
    — David Graeber, The New York Review of Books, 13 Jan. 2020
  • And in tweets available for anyone to see, the man suspected of killing five at a Maryland newspaper this week broadcast his hate with a stream of invectives.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 29 June 2018
  • Two years later, Spiro Agnew, Nixon’s vice president, launched a Trump-style campaign of invective in the off-year elections.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • Trump invective, the former Slim Shady even lambasts his old self for pulling a publicity stunt with the current president back in the day.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 15 Dec. 2017
  • Infuriated, Herbert launched a stream of invective at the lad who served him.
    — Robert Mitchell, Washington Post, 23 June 2018
  • That quickly spread to invective for Taylor, followed by woe-is-us and general malaise.
    — Paul Daugherty, USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Mr Trump’s invective smacks of bigotry: congressmen from poor white districts do not receive insults in the same vein.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • As the semester wound down, several Black students received threatening phone calls laced with racial invective.
    — TIME, 19 Dec. 2023
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invective

2 of 2 adjective
  • Please come to the plate with facts and reason, not invective.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 June 2020
  • When the quit this year, , a tsunami of invective washed over social media, calling him a communist, a traitor, a crook.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2020
  • Now, Carroll is seeking millions of dollars more to stop the river of invective.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • This is not a time for cynicism or invective or second-guessing.
    — Andrew Taylor, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2020
  • After pounding on the dashboard, raising the hood, and hurling invective at the hapless Jeep, Arutunoff headed for a telephone to call Aberlich and threaten to set his Jeep on fire.
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The report also said board members received threatening and invective-laden emails.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Hytner tends to stay away from the self-revealing (except for his run-in with Harold Pinter, which is so invective-strewn it can’t be reproduced here without making the paragraph look like a night sky of asterisks).
    — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Spend your fight on nasty jabs at the opposition, invective at party rivals, cable-show drama, and personal crusades?
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Critics have praised both the show and Australian actor Jason Clarke’s intense portrayal of West as a volatile man given to bursts of invective, impressive in their duration and profane inventiveness.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Trump threw invective at mainstream media outlets, but readers, subscribers, viewers and advertisers all threw dollars at them.
    — Jacob S. Hacker, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The column is a strange mélange of quotes from celebrities, conservative political analysis, invective against foes real and perceived, anecdotes about the peculiarity of life in Manhattan, and aphorisms and puns.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Daldry achieves latitude by balancing invective with humor in confrontations that are always honest and leveling.
    — Armond White, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Please come to the plate with facts and reason, not invective.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 3 June 2020
  • When the quit this year, , a tsunami of invective washed over social media, calling him a communist, a traitor, a crook.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2020
  • Now, Carroll is seeking millions of dollars more to stop the river of invective.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • This is not a time for cynicism or invective or second-guessing.
    — Andrew Taylor, Fortune, 27 Mar. 2020
  • After pounding on the dashboard, raising the hood, and hurling invective at the hapless Jeep, Arutunoff headed for a telephone to call Aberlich and threaten to set his Jeep on fire.
    — William Jeanes, Car and Driver, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The report also said board members received threatening and invective-laden emails.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Hytner tends to stay away from the self-revealing (except for his run-in with Harold Pinter, which is so invective-strewn it can’t be reproduced here without making the paragraph look like a night sky of asterisks).
    — Peter Lewis, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Spend your fight on nasty jabs at the opposition, invective at party rivals, cable-show drama, and personal crusades?
    — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Critics have praised both the show and Australian actor Jason Clarke’s intense portrayal of West as a volatile man given to bursts of invective, impressive in their duration and profane inventiveness.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2022
  • Trump threw invective at mainstream media outlets, but readers, subscribers, viewers and advertisers all threw dollars at them.
    — Jacob S. Hacker, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The column is a strange mélange of quotes from celebrities, conservative political analysis, invective against foes real and perceived, anecdotes about the peculiarity of life in Manhattan, and aphorisms and puns.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Daldry achieves latitude by balancing invective with humor in confrontations that are always honest and leveling.
    — Armond White, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021

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