0 past simple and past participle of harangue
1 to speak to someone or a group of people, often for a long time, in a forceful and sometimes angry way, especially to persuade them:
The subtext is that perhaps the songwriters themselves were harangued for daring to have an interest in music rather than sport.
Key to this is the diminishing of functionality, a concept that has harangued previous genres without ever gaining a foothold on the ladder to useful critique.
Television coming into the average lounge does not capture well huge conferences and mass audiences being harangued from a rostrum.
I was being harangued by social workers and community leaders into protesting about my rights.
They harangued me fairly vehemently about the fact that they had either got to break the law or go bust.
A police-officer harangued the crowd and advised them to go a way quietly.
It was a mob of several thousands being harangued, presumably not in the interests of peace and order, but with incitations to violence.
The accusation has been made that you have been harangued.
