He launched into a tirade about how the government is encroaching on his rights.
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Tirade
//ˈtaɪɹeɪd//
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25 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- тира́да noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 长篇大论 noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Czech
1 entries- tiráda noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Danish
1 entries- tirade noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Dutch
1 entries- tirade noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Finnish
2 entries- saarna noun (long, angry or violent speech)
- vuodatus noun (long, angry or violent speech)
French
4 entries- diatribe noun (long, angry or violent speech)
- laisse noun (section of verse concerning a single theme)
- tirade noun (long, angry or violent speech)
- tirade noun (section of verse concerning a single theme)
German
1 entries- Tirade noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Greek
1 entries- υβρεολόγιο noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Hungarian
2 entries- szóáradat noun (long, angry or violent speech)
- tiráda noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Italian
1 entries- invettiva noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Māori
2 entries- tūpeha noun (long, angry or violent speech)
- tūpehataua noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Portuguese
1 entries- diatribe noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Russian
1 entries- тира́да noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Slovak
1 entries- tiráda noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Spanish
3 entries- catilinaria noun (long, angry or violent speech)
- diatriba noun (long, angry or violent speech)
- invectiva noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Turkish
1 entries- tirat noun (long, angry or violent speech)
Sample sentences
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A man has been jailed for a racist, misogynist tirade against a French tourist.
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No one was game to say anything after the boss's tirade at the staff meeting.
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Every time I tell the boss the company's situation, there's a tirade.
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