harangued
past simple and past participle ofharangue
harangue
verb[T]
disapprovinguk/həˈræŋ/us/həˈræŋ/tospeakto someone or agroupofpeople, often for alongtime, in aforcefuland sometimesangryway,especiallytopersuadethem:
Adrunkin thestationwas haranguing passers-by.
Lecturing & addressing
- ad lib
- co-present
- discourse
- eunoia
- extemporize
- floor
- harangue
- hold
- jawbone
- lead off
- lightning talk
- monologue
- onto
- PechaKucha
- presentation
- sermon
- sermonize
- speak
- speechify
- valediction
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Examplesofharangued
harangued
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
The subtext is that perhaps the songwriters themselves wereharanguedfor daring to have an interest in music rather than sport.
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Key to this is the diminishing of functionality, a concept that hasharanguedprevious genres without ever gaining a foothold on the ladder to useful critique.
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Television coming into the average lounge does not capture well huge conferences and mass audiences beingharanguedfrom a rostrum.
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I was beingharanguedby social workers and community leaders into protesting about my rights.
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Theyharanguedme fairly vehemently about the fact that they had either got to break the law or go bust.
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A police-officerharanguedthe crowd and advised them to go a way quietly.
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It was a mob of several thousands beingharangued, presumably not in the interests of peace and order, but with incitations to violence.
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The accusation has been made that you have beenharangued.
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However, we areharanguedand preached at because of the success of the economy.
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They do not have to beharanguedand told every year that they must have it on their agenda.
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The mob was then in a state of frenzy and was beingharanguedby a youth and a young woman.
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It is debilitating to the people who work in the offices constantly to beharanguedwith the monotonous, regular tones of the same message again and again.
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Shall we receive complaints from our constituents about beingharanguedby beggars in the streets?
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It is an extraordinary thing that we should now beharanguedfor the possibility that we may achieve the surplus and then not use it wisely.
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Along the way they areharanguedby all manner of thugs and toughs, whose costumes range from 1980s hip-hop wear to stereotypical pirates.
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