0 an angry speech or piece of writing that severely criticizes something or someone:
His diatribes became increasingly anachronistic and fraught with difficulties in establishing a clear division between necessary and conspicuous expenditure.
The original poem contains a fierce diatribe against women; against this background other more innocent features acquire some significance.
His book is more of a personal diatribe than an academic study.
For example, 154,000 people apparently wrote their thanks for his public diatribe; he did not, however, disclose how many bothered to register their objections.
Already in 1911 he had summarized his basic criticism and by 1930 he had expanded it into an unparalleled diatribe.
His stance is anti-cultural materialist and anti-critical theory, but this is no reactionary diatribe.
The opening of the manuscript is proper to a musical monk, as are the diatribes against avarice and several other godly poems and tracts.
His essay is characteristically more playful than the grim diatribe against "genre" it is usually taken to be.
