inveigh against

phrasal verb

inveighed against; inveighing against; inveighs against

formal

: to protest or complain about (something or someone) very strongly

Employees inveighed against mandatory overtime.

Examples of inveigh against in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Donald Trump is right to inveigh against President Biden’s failure to secure the southern border. —The Editors, National Review, 12 Apr. 2024

But the law was popular in Uganda, a landlocked nation of over 48 million people, where religious and political leaders frequently inveigh against homosexuality. —Abdi Latif Dahir, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024

An IP address from the presidential palace was used to print the cards, which asserted that Bolsonaro, who spent years inveighing against the coronavirus vaccine and swore off ever receiving one, had been vaccinated against covid-19. —Marina Dias, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2024

With his ruling Fidesz party entrenched in power, the Hungarian prime minister has used his platform to inveigh against E.U. edicts and wave the flag of right-wing culture war on the continent. —Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024

The American public had encountered this thinking before, of course, as it was popularized in the Nineties by the homicidal maniac Theodore Kaczynski, whose manifesto inveighed against industrial society and called for its violent overthrow. —Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023

People who inveigh against Christianity don’t see this side of it. —Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023

Humans’ selective solicitude for endangered species was well illustrated by George F. Will in a 2017 Washington Post column inveighing against the Endangered Species Act. —Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023

Following the visit, Trump posted a message on his social media platform, Truth Social, inveighing against a possible indictment. —Time, 7 June 2023