harangue

n

1. declamation, stump speech, cice-ronianism; oration, speech, talk, address, recitation; hard sell, Inf. spiel, appeal; bombast, rodomontade, bluster, Sl. big stink, hot air; effusion, expatiation.

2. lecture, sermon, preachment, homily, allocution, exhortation; discourse, prelection, disquisition, dissertation, Rhet. peroration.

3. philippic, diatribe, rant, tirade; screed, vituperation, excoriation, denunciation.

v

4. orate, speechify, declaim, hold forth, go on and on, perorate, drone on; expound, expatiate, prelect; spout forth, Inf. bark; take to the hustings, Inf. stump, soapbox, get up on a soapbox; preach, sermonize, lecture, pontificate; rant and rave, hoot and holler; denounce, excoriate, scold