he was harangued
he was spoken to in an angry way
TRANSLATION
harangue = jemandem eine Strafpredigt halten --- GOOGLE INDEX harangue: approximately 900,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson insists he will never allow his players to HARANGUE referees and has called for more respect to be shown to officials.
(BBC News)
---
"When I first started selling our veal in farmers markets, some people would come up and HARANGUE me. They wouldn't listen to anything I had to say. Some did though, and are now among my best customers."
(The Guardian Online)
(BBC News)
---
"When I first started selling our veal in farmers markets, some people would come up and HARANGUE me. They wouldn't listen to anything I had to say. Some did though, and are now among my best customers."
(The Guardian Online)
Did you
know?
harangue
verb
- to speak to someone or a group of people, often for a long time, in a forceful and sometimes angry way, especially to persuade them
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
harangue
noun
- a forceful and aggressive speech
(Oxford Compact English Dictionary)
---
Harangue for a good cause
A young South African man plans on breaking the world record for haranguing by lecturing for five days on the subject of democracy in Africa. The purpose of the lecture is to raise $50,000 to build a library at an orphanage in Mutoko. He will be feeding on bananas and chocolates during the lecture.
"I believe in youth participation and this is my own small way of doing it," said the 22- year-old.
A 35-year-old Indian man holds the world record for the longest speech at 98 hours. Some of the former holders of the record include Cuban President Fidel Castro, who presented a four-hour speech at the United Nations General Assembly in 1960.
---
SYNONYMS
accost, buttonhole, chew out, exhort, rant, rave, spout, stump, talk to, yell at
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"He gave up smoking after the constant haranging of his team members."
verb
- to speak to someone or a group of people, often for a long time, in a forceful and sometimes angry way, especially to persuade them
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
harangue
noun
- a forceful and aggressive speech
(Oxford Compact English Dictionary)
---
Harangue for a good cause
A young South African man plans on breaking the world record for haranguing by lecturing for five days on the subject of democracy in Africa. The purpose of the lecture is to raise $50,000 to build a library at an orphanage in Mutoko. He will be feeding on bananas and chocolates during the lecture.
"I believe in youth participation and this is my own small way of doing it," said the 22- year-old.
A 35-year-old Indian man holds the world record for the longest speech at 98 hours. Some of the former holders of the record include Cuban President Fidel Castro, who presented a four-hour speech at the United Nations General Assembly in 1960.
---
SYNONYMS
accost, buttonhole, chew out, exhort, rant, rave, spout, stump, talk to, yell at
---
SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"He gave up smoking after the constant haranging of his team members."
