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- noun Plural form of
tirade .
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Examples
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You twice impugned the authenticity of my doctorate in tirades of libel.
Back To The Future « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate, and in eccentricities.
May 28th, 2001 2001
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If your tirades are an example of Darcy's supporters, I don't want anything of it.
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I can recall the tirades against opening up more billets to women some 20
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I can recall the tirades against opening up more billets to women some 20 years ago.
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I can recall the tirades against opening up more billets to women some 20
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Hmm. Maybe all the insinuations and "tirades" are aimed in the wrong direction.
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But considering the frequency, length and safety of "tirades" in all parts of America, it seems unjust not to permit Indians to deliver them.
The Wards of the United States Government H. H. 1880
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If such and so swift penalty as this, for "tirades" in council, were the law of our land, especially in the District of Columbia, it would be "no just cause of complaint" when Indians suffer it.
The Wards of the United States Government H. H. 1880
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What they say can hardly be termed "tirades;" and the sentiments were in accordance with much accredited literature of that day.
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor 1874
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