0 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: --
1 a long and angry speech or piece of writing in which you criticize someone or something or try to persuade someone that you are right: --
2 to speak to someone or a group of people, often for a long time, in a forceful and sometimes angry way, esp. to persuade them or to express disapproval: --
A police-officer harangued the crowd and advised them to go a way quietly.
I hope that we shall avoid a full three-hour harangue.
Haranguing and hectoring and hullabaloo have long been the means of enlivening debate.
Legitimate customers can be harangued, but are often bribed, into buying alcohol for teenagers.
They harangued me fairly vehemently about the fact that they had either got to break the law or go bust.
I was being harangued by social workers and community leaders into protesting about my rights.
That is the sort of approach we want, not a great harangue about obscure points which do not help anybody in this debate.
I wish to give my reasons, without harangue.