diatribe n : thunderous verbal attack [syn: fulmination]

English

Pronunciation

• /ˈdaɪ.əˌtɹaɪb/

Etymology

First attested 1581, from diatriba#Latin < sc=Grek < sc=Grek + sc=Grek.

Noun

1. An abusive, bitter denunciation.
2. A prolonged discourse.
3. A speech or writing which bitterly denounces something.

   The senator was prone to diatribes which could go on for more than an hour.

Translations

• Italian: diatriba (1,2)
• Romanian: diatriba
• Spanish: diatriba

Quotations

• 1991 Bill Crow, Jazz Anecdotes

"You know, it’s all this racial diatribe, and very strong language, screaming at the top of his lungs into the telephone." href="http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Ddiatribe%26lr%3D%26start%3D50&sig=I8NiqX-4z_Pk3y617emdNE4a69E">http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Ddiatribe%26lr%3D%26start%3D50&sig=I8NiqX-4z_Pk3y617emdNE4a69E

Italian

Noun

diatribe

1. Plural of diatriba

Diatribe could refer to:

• Diatribe (newspaper column), a weekly column by Dean Kalimniou appearing in the Melbourne Greek language newspaper Neos Kosmos
• Diatribe (band), an industrial music group from the 1990s

abuse, address, after-dinner speech, allocution, assailing, assault, attack, berating, bitter words, blackening, chalk talk, contumely, debate, declamation, eulogy, execration, exhortation, filibuster, forensic, forensic address, formal speech, funeral oration, harangue, hard words, hortatory address, inaugural, inaugural address, invective, jawing, jeremiad, onslaught, oration, pep talk, peroration, philippic, pitch, prepared speech, prepared text, public speech, rating, reading, recital, recitation, revilement, sales talk, salutatory, salutatory address, say, screed, set speech, speech, speechification, speeching, talk, talkathon, tirade, tongue-lashing, valediction, valedictory, valedictory address, vilification, vituperation