tirade

From French tirade (“monologue, speech, tirade”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaɪɹeɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

tirade (plural tirades)

1. A long, angry or violent speech; a diatribe.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 13, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

2. A section of verse concerning a single theme; a laisse.

• (speech): diatribe, rant
• (section of verse): laisse
• See also Thesaurus:diatribe

• j'accuse
• tantrum

tirade (third-person singular simple present tirades, present participle tirading, simple past and past participle tiraded)

1. To make a long, angry or violent speech, a tirade.
   • 2009, Megan Greenberg, The Orser's Promise

     Long into the night had he tiraded, until finally, when Apt had refused to keep awake a moment longer, no matter what fascinating things the desert people were doing with preserving the dead […]

• Atreid, airted, atride, tradie