harangue

noun

father began a harangue about my monstrous behavior:

tirade, lecture, diatribe, homily, polemic, rant, fulmination, broadside, verbal attack, verbal onslaught, invective;

criticism, berating, censure, admonition, reproval, admonishment;

exhortation, declamation, oration, peroration, speech, talk, address;

informal sermon, tongue-lashing, spiel, pep talk;

rare philippic, obloquy.

▷antonyms panegyric.

verb

the union leaders harangued the workers over loudspeakers:

deliver a tirade to, rant at, lecture, hold forth to, preach to, pontificate to, sermonize to, spout to, declaim to, give a lecture to;

berate, castigate, criticize, attack, lambaste, censure, pillory, upbraid;

informal earbash, speechify to, preachify to, sound off to, spiel to.