tirades

noun

plural of tirade
as in rants
a long angry speech or scolding after the inspection by the health department, we had to listen to the manager's tirade about keeping the restaurant's kitchen cleaner

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Recent Examples of tirades And baseball has just tirades and just screaming at each other in the middle. — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026 Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee once put it this way about why some golfer tirades add character while others are despised. — Brody Miller, New York Times, 19 June 2026 Rambling usually ignores it when Dean Cain posts one of his tirades against liberal Hollywood. — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026 Of course, at the heart of it was the man himself, a deeply polarizing music icon whose years-long tirades against everyone from Jewish people to his peers tainted a legacy that once seemed unimpeachable. — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 2 Apr. 2026 Lion was taken into custody early Saturday morning in the Palisades after what a neighbor described as antisemitic tirades. — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026 The Onion has long delighted readers with a mix of highbrow and stupidly silly news stories that parody the latest social trends and political tirades, highlighting their absurdity—and deeper truths. — Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2026 Indeed, Ye has been something of an outcast in the mainstream entertainment industry since a series of antisemitic and racist tirades in 2022, culminating in the release of a swastika T-shirt via his Yeezy brand. — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2026 The film explores how comedians parody leaders and help define them to the public, an important conversation currently amid presidential tirades against late night hosts, and after The Late Show With Stephen Colbert closed up shop last month. — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 6 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tirades
  1. rants
  2. attacks
  3. diatribes
  4. criticisms
  5. jeremiads
  6. sermons
  7. harangues
Noun
  • Mention of women has also not been absent in the president’s disrespectful rants.
    — Gary Franks, Hartford Courant, 27 June 2026
  • Through blood-curdling howls and rants about fascism, fraud, and fighting to understand your identity, Truck Violence push through ugliness to find something more unaltered and real.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 25 June 2026
Definition of rants
Noun
  • The British Army also provided protection from attacks by Native American tribes, giving many settlers little reason to support a rebellion.
    — Hank Tester, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Twice in recent days, the United States has launched retaliatory strikes on Iran following drone attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
    — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Definition of attacks
Noun
  • Trump’s social media feed and rhetoric overflow with racist diatribes.
    — Laura Washington, Mercury News, 9 June 2026
  • Academics in particular knew the impact of his anti-college diatribes, demonizing of university professors, and literal targeting of them with Professor Watchlist.
    — Karen J. Leader, Sun Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2026
Definition of diatribes
Noun
  • There have been criticisms over the division of a 90-minute match into essentially four quarters rather than two halves (with hydration breaks inserted around the 22nd and 67th minutes of every game).
    — Sarah Shephard, New York Times, 5 July 2026
  • As this World Cup continues to play out, the criticisms, fears and concerns about the home of the New York Giants and New York Jets have all been realized to an international audience.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 July 2026
Definition of criticisms
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  • The question, of course, is what we are supposed to do with these bourgeois jeremiads against bourgeois civilization, beyond enjoying them as high-end primal-scream therapy.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
Definition of jeremiads
Noun
  • Stylistically, this encyclopedic catch-all of genres readily segues from sermons and soliloquies to thrilling action sequences and anguished cris de coeur.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
  • This doesn’t mean that sermons are sedating people, said the team.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 July 2026
Definition of sermons
Noun
  • Stephen Adly Guirgis, a New York playwright who specializes in urban pressure-cooker dramas, has a gift for writing subway strap-hanger harangues.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
Definition of harangues

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