Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who harangues or is fond of haranguing; a noisy declaimer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who harangues, or is fond of haranguing; a declaimer.

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  • noun One who harangues.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a public speaker who delivers a loud or forceful or angry speech

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Examples

  • The priest as Prophet should not be an excuse to become a self-appointed haranguer for or against a personal agenda.

    Wounded Healer, Bearer of Mystery, Prophet 2009

  • Veteran reporter and Bush haranguer Helen Thomas, who costarred in the performance-closing video, leapt in searches.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • If Darian could not get away from whoever had decided to deliver the usual lecture, the haranguer would then go through the litany of Darian's many character flaws and deficiencies, and the only variation was in how much emphasis an individual placed on a particular flaw.

    Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

  • White Hart evening club he was more often than any other the winner of the Headstrong Book -- an old Greek Homer despatched the next morning to the most obstinate haranguer of the preceding night.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • Macaulay here speaks like a heated haranguer or Parliamentary partizan, not like an historian or a critic.

    The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. Various 1881

  • "It isn't possible!" interrupted Don Ramon excitedly, in mingled horror of the masculinely rampant Mrs. Markham and admiration of the fascinatingly feminine Mrs. Brimmer; "a lady cannot be an orator -- a haranguer of men!"

    The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte 1869

  • With the exception of the two or three at the front, no one has her hands free to grab the haranguer by the throat and close the oratorical stop-cock.

    The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • This one is the best one for the propagation and rapid increase of the coffee-house politician, club haranguer, the stump-speaker, the street-rioter, the committee dictator -- in short, the revolutionary and the tyrant.

    The French Revolution - Volume 2 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • And 'gan a-preaching with a frown -- he was a fierce haranguer.

    Ballads William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Half an hour was the time allotted for each haranguer; when this was expired, the moderators were seen to look at their watches.

    Domestic Manners of the Americans 1832

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